Lawyers representing the publisher of The Wall Street Journal asked a United Nations human-rights advocate to press Russia to release jailed Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
In a submission timed with the 100th day of Gershkovich's detention, Dow Jones lawyers urged Mariana Katzarova, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights in Russia, to contact Russian officials and demand the 31-year-old reporter’s immediate release.
“Russia’s arrest of him was a blunt and chilling warning to all those in Russia who would dare to exercise their rights in ways disfavored by the Russian government,” said the lawyers, including Dow Jones general counsel Jason Conti and lawyers for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in Washington. “Gershkovich’s detention calls for a clear and robust international response.”
