Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a court in Russia on July 19.Gershkovich has been held on charges of spying for the US government, which he denies, since March 2023.This footage published by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court shows the moment Gershkovich was sentenced.The Sverdlovsk Regional Court said that they had “established, in March 2023, [Gershkovich], on assignment from US intelligence services, collected classified information in the Sverdlovsk Region about the activities of one of the defense enterprises for the production and repair of military equipment.”“The court found Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison in a maximum security penal colony,” the Sverdlovsk Regional Court said.Reporting on the verdict, the Wall Street Journal said that Gershkovich was “wrongfully convicted in a hurried, secret trial that the US government [had] condemned as a sham.” Credit: Sverdlovsk Regional Court via Storyful