Zakharova urged not to compare Gershkovich with Assange
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova in her Telegram channel commented Statement by US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby regarding the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, an employee of the Moscow bureau of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal.
Recall that Kirby expressed his outrage at the arrest of Gershkovich, as journalism, in his words, “is not a crime.”
“Journalism is not what Gershkovich did in Yekaterinburg. Journalism is what Assange did and for which he is in prison due to American persecution,” Zakharova wrote.
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