Starmer condemns ‘despicable’ sentence of US reporter Gershkovich in Russia
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The Prime Minister said the jailing underscored Moscow’s ‘utter contempt for media freedom’.
Sir Keir Starmer has condemned the “despicable” sentencing of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by a Russian court on espionage charges which were rejected by his employer and the US as a sham.