“Cheerful, joked a lot.” Members of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee on their visit to The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow visited the American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in a case of espionage, in the Lefortovo detention center, Interfax reports .

“We visited Gershkovich, he has no complaints about his detention at Lefortovo. Bodr, during the conversation he joked a lot, ”the commission said.

Gershkovich is in a "quarantine" double cell, but he does not yet have a neighbor. “A neighbor can appear only after receiving a negative test for the presence of coronavirus,” the PMC explained.

Representatives of the commission added that Gershkovich's food in the pre-trial detention center "complies with established standards."

• Evan Gershkovich was detained at the end of March in Yekaterinburg. The FSB of Russia said they suspected The Wall Street Journal correspondent of espionage. The US authorities demanded the release of Gershkovich. the Russian authorities with the same appeal addressed Leading American media Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico and more than 30 media executives from different countries . Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asked the United States "not to give political overtones" to Gershkovich's arrest.