Punjab News Line, Chandigarh:
American journalist Ivan Gershkovich has been sentenced to 16 years in jail. This journalist was imprisoned in a Russian jail for 479 days. According to the information, the Russian court has convicted journalist Ivan in the case of espionage. It is being told that this journalist is an agent of the intelligence agency CIA. He was arrested in the Ural city of Russia on charges of spying on a military tank factory.
According to news agency AFP, Ivan was caught reporting in the Urals in 2023. On the other hand, US President Joe Biden has also commented on this decision of the court. He says that Ivan has been targeted like this because he is an American citizen. Actually, Ivan Gershkovich used to report for the American newspaper Wall Street Journal. He was covering the Ukraine war and Russia's private military Wagner Group in Moscow. He was covering. Ivan reported that the war was destroying Russia's economy.