Foley Foundation and Family Advocates Welcome Legislation to Designate a Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Flag Day
Bipartisan congressional measure would designate March 9 as date of remembrance for Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained
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Bipartisan congressional measure would designate March 9 as date of remembrance for Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained
Over the past year, I have been exchanging letters with my old friend Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who, as of today, has been held hostage on baseless espionage charges in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison for exactly a year.
Dozens of people gathered on March 28 on a plaza in Washington on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia and demanded his release.
UN experts today condemned the continued arbitrary detention of Evan Gershkovich, a 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter and US-citizen who has been held without evidence for a year.
The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested last March in Yekatarinburg on espionage charges and is being held at the infamous Lefortovo prison in Moscow. Mariana Katzarova, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, and Irene Khan, Special…
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Journalism is not a crime. We will continue to fight every single day to get him home as soon as possible.
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In an interview with NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, Gershkovich’s parents and sister discuss his passion for reporting and their optimism that he will be released.
Over six years, the Russian leader stockpiled American detainees, enhancing his bargaining position and thwarting backchannel efforts by Trump and Biden to bring citizens home
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