Earlier on Friday, Evan Gershkovich stood in a glass cage in Yekaterinburg, a city about 900 miles east of Moscow, as the court sentenced him to a 16-year prison term on espionage charges. The Wall Street Journal and the US government have called this a “sham trial” and vehemently deny the charges. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports on the plight of Gershkovich and other Americans detained in Russia on baseless charges.
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