WSJ asks UN free-speech advocate to help obtain Gershkovich release

Lawyers representing Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, asked a United Nations free-speech advocate to make an urgent appeal to Russia for the immediate release of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, reports Journal reporter Jennifer Calfas. Calfas writes, “Mr. Gershkovich, the lawyers wrote, is being held as a ‘high-value political prisoner.’ “‘Russia’s continued detention of Evan […]