A Russian court on Friday found a U.S journalist Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security colony
Numerous Russian news agencies reported from the court in Yekaterinburg.
He was accused of gathering information on the Uralvagonzavod defence equipment factory in Nizhny Tagil, which lies 130 kilometres to the north of Yekaterinburg, on behalf of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Gershkovich a U.S. reporter was earlier arrested in March 2023
Like many Western journalists, Gershkovich had worked and researched in Russia with accreditation from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
