Paul Beckett on the Evan Gershkovich Case
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. But since the arrest of the newspaper's Russia correspondent, Evan Gershkovich, last year in Russia on bogus spying charges, he has been working full time on advocating for the reporter's release. In connection with the one-year anniversary of Gershkovich's arrest, he joined Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the case. What do we know about the charges against the young reporter? What is the U.S. government doing to secure his release? What progress, if any, has been made? And how is Gershkovich holding up in prison in Moscow?
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| 0:58.0 | and available in all good bookshops and on audible. I would say he is doing remarkably well under very difficult circumstances. So he is in the |
| 1:15.2 | fort for prison. That's a notorious establishment. I think it's actually under the |
| 1:20.4 | FSP headquarters in Moscow. It has been used for decades for political prisoners designed |
| 1:26.6 | to disorient them, to isolate them. |
| 1:31.5 | So Evan spends 23 hours a day in a cell. |
| 1:35.0 | The other hour that he has is in the courtyard about the same size as his cell. |
| 1:40.0 | So it's basically six steps in each direction. |
| 1:46.1 | So incredibly cramped and unpleasant. |
| 1:48.9 | One of his friends described his actual cell as basically a glorified toilet because I think the facilities are there and his bed is there, he has a cellmate, you know, but that's it. |
| 2:01.0 | So you can imagine what that's like he under those circumstances has just shown |
| 2:09.7 | extraordinary fortitude. I'm Hayman Hahn, Associate Editor of Law Fair. |
| 2:15.0 | This is the Lawfare Podcast for April 4, 2024. |
| 2:19.0 | Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. |
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