jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoOutrage grows over Evan Gershkovich’s 16-year sentence in Russian penal colonywww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down11
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkOutrage grows over Evan Gershkovich’s 16-year sentence in Russian penal colonywww.independent.co.ukjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoGershkovich wasn’t on vacation or anything. He was working on an assignment for the WSJ
minus-squarediffusive@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoRight but maybe the WSJ should have hired a Russian (or 3rd nationality) journalist for the role. It’s not different on how things were in Cuba few years ago where it wasn’t possible to send US citizens there
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI don’t see how it would’ve ended differently. Other than maybe the US govt wouldn’t care
Gershkovich wasn’t on vacation or anything. He was working on an assignment for the WSJ
Right but maybe the WSJ should have hired a Russian (or 3rd nationality) journalist for the role.
It’s not different on how things were in Cuba few years ago where it wasn’t possible to send US citizens there
I don’t see how it would’ve ended differently. Other than maybe the US govt wouldn’t care