{"id":123226,"date":"2024-11-07T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123226"},"modified":"2024-11-07T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:00:03","slug":"us-journalist-goes-on-trial-in-russia-on-spying-charges-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123226","title":{"rendered":"US journalist goes on trial in Russia on spying charges | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cO7YxJfgBMo?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>After 15 months in a Moscow jail, the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has gone on trial in Russia accused of espionage. <\/p>\n<p>The court case is being held 1,000 miles from the Russian capital in Yekaterinburg, the city where he was arrested on spying charges while on a reporting trip for his newspaper<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nHead shaven, and wearing a check shirt and jeans, Mr Gershkovich stood in the metal and glass cage known in Russian courtrooms as &#8220;the aquarium&#8221;.  He smiled to cameras, but made no comment.<br \/>\nJournalists were admitted on the first day but his trial will be held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claim that the American journalist had been collecting classified information about a Russian tank manufacturer near Yekaterinburg on behalf of America\u2019s Central Intelligence Agency.  If convicted the maximum sentence is twenty years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gershkovich, his employer and the US government reject the charge.  The White House says Russia is using Mr Gershkovich as a &#8220;bargaining chip&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Brown presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cO7YxJfgBMo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 months in a Moscow jail, the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has gone on trial in Russia accused of espionage. The court case is being held 1,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123226\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}