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According to the media, the detention of a US citizen in Russia will involve the...

Arrest of WSJ Gershkovich journalist: US State Department recognized Russia's actions illegal

According to the media, the detention of a US citizen in Russia will involve the management of a special envoy by the President of the United States to hostage affairs. On Monday, April 10, the US State Department recognized the journalist of The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich "illegally detained" in the Russian Federation. This was written by CNN with reference to the statement of the Deputy Official Representative of the US Department Vedant Patel.

"Today, the Secretary of State Blinken has decided that Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russia improperly," the journalists of the Patel quoted. Vedant Pavel added that the WSJ correspondent and his relatives can count on "all the necessary support" by the authorities. He also urged the Russian government to immediately release the US citizen and indicated that in Moscow, consular access of US Embassy representatives to the detainee had restricted.

"This is a violation of Russia's obligations to our consular Convention and the violation of international law," Pavel stated. The authors of the publication note that the recognition of actions of the Russian Federation will be illegal to allow Presidential Administration Joe Baiden to consider all possible options for liberation of Gershkovich.

It is also reported that the State Department will now consider the detention of an American journalist through the management of the US Presidential Presidential Envoy. It should be reminded that on March 30 it became known about the arrest of the US citizen and correspondent The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich in Russia. According to the media, he went to Yekaterinburg to gather information for his article about Wagner PEC.