Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted on Friday of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and the US government have rejected as fabricated.The swift conclusion of the secretive trial in Russia's highly politicised legal system could potentially clear the way for a prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington.Gershkovich, his head shaved and looking thin, was calm as he stood in a glass defendants' cage in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.
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