Moscow court upholds ruling to keep US journalist in detention until late August

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Russia (Dmitry Serebryakov/AP)

A court in Moscow has upheld an earlier ruling to keep Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia on espionage charges, in detention until late August, rejecting the journalist’s appeal.

US citizen Gershkovich, 31, was arrested in late March while on a reporting trip.