{"id":15173,"date":"2023-04-02T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15173"},"modified":"2023-04-02T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:00:35","slug":"blinken-urges-russia-for-immediate-release-of-detained-us-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/blinken-urges-russia-for-immediate-release-of-detained-us-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken urges Russia for &#8216;immediate release&#8217; of detained US journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday called for the &#8220;immediate release&#8221; of a US journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges in a call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken &#8220;conveyed the United States&#8217; grave concern over Russia&#8217;s unacceptable detention of a US citizen journalist. The Secretary called for his immediate release,&#8221; spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement, adding that the top US diplomat also urged Moscow to release detained American Paul Whelan.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal was detained by security agents in Russia on Wednesday, the newspaper has reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/former-russian-president-warns-of-war-if-putin-arrested.html\">Former Russian president warns of war if Putin arrested<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lavrov \u2014 in his call with Blinken \u2014 has slammed US officials and Western media asking them to refrain from &#8220;hype&#8221; over the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry also said Lavrov told Blinken that &#8220;a court will determine his future fate&#8221;, referring to Gershkovich, who has been detained on espionage charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American side initiated the phone call,&#8221; the ministry said on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday called for the &#8220;immediate release&#8221; of a US journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges in a call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, a spokesperson said. Blinken &#8220;conveyed the United States&#8217; grave concern over Russia&#8217;s unacceptable detention of a US citizen journalist. The Secretary called for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6492,532,636,8648],"class_list":["post-15173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-antony-blinken","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us-secretary-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}