{"id":19484,"date":"2023-07-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=19484"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T01:33:57","slug":"sen-ossoff-statement-on-evan-gershkovich","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-statement-on-evan-gershkovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Statement on Evan Gershkovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement on the 100th day of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich\u2019s wrongful detainment in Russia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince his arrest by the Russian government on March 29, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained \u2014 deprived of his liberty and taken from his family \u2014 for 100 days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. Gershkovich\u2019s wrongful detention is a cruel and unjust violation of human rights and an attack on press freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. Gershkovich and all Americans wrongfully detained around the world are not and will not be forgotten as efforts to secure their release continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before being elected to the U.S. Senate, Sen. Ossoff produced internationally broadcast investigations of war crimes, official corruption, and organized crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-leading-push-to-keep-journalists-safe-promote-press-freedom-worldwide\/\">Sen. Ossoff led a coalition of Senators<\/a>&nbsp;urging specific funding for the State Department\u2019s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and USAID\u2019s Center for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance accounts for journalist safety, including robust resources for direct emergency grants for reporters who find themselves at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last fall, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-leads-bipartisan-push-to-protect-journalists-worldwide\/\">l<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-leads-bipartisan-push-to-protect-journalists-worldwide\/\">ed a bipartisan group of Senators<\/a>&nbsp;calling on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the United States\u2019 UN Delegation to push for the creation a new Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Safety of Journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also led an effort with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-romney-demand-accountability-for-killing-of-american-journalist-in-west-bank\/\">demand accountability<\/a>&nbsp;for the killing of an American Journalist in the West Bank and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RuuQWY--kew\">questioned<\/a>&nbsp;Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings to reiterate her commitments to freedoms of speech and of the press.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement on the 100th day of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich\u2019s wrongful detainment in Russia: \u201cSince his arrest by the Russian government on March 29, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained \u2014 deprived of his liberty and taken from his family [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19484","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/19484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/19484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19486,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/19484\/revisions\/19486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}