Date set for trial of US reporter charged with espionage in Russia

The trial is to be held in the Sverdlovsky Regional Court in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia in April (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

The espionage trial in Russia of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will begin on June 26 and will be held behind closed doors, a statement from the court that will hear the case has said.

Gershkovich, a US citizen, has been behind bars since his March 2023 arrest and faces 20 years in prison if convicted.