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		</div><p>A Moscow court has rejected an appeal by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and upheld an earlier ruling that he should remain in jail on espionage charges until late August.</p>
<p>The 31-year-old US citizen was arrested in late March while on a reporting trip.</p>
<p>A Moscow court agreed last month to keep him in custody until August 30.</p>
<p>Defence lawyers had challenged the decision.</p>
<p>Gershkovich, wearing a black T-shirt and light blue jeans, looked tense and paced around inside a glass defendant’s cage while waiting for the hearing to begin at the Moscow City Court.</p>
<p>Before the hearing began, other journalists in the courtroom were asked to leave and the proceedings took place behind closed doors.</p>
<p>Gershkovich’s parents and US ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy attended the hearing.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters afterwards, Ms Tracy said that “Evan continues to show remarkable strength and resilience in these very difficult circumstances”.</p>
<p>Gershkovich and his employer have denied he spied in Russia.</p>
<p>The US government has declared him to be wrongfully detained and demanded his immediate release.</p>
<p>His arrest in the city of Yekaterinburg rattled journalists in Russia, where authorities have not detailed what, if any, evidence they have gathered to support the espionage charges.</p>
<p>Gershkovich is being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, which is notorious for its harsh conditions.</p>
<p>US embassy officials were allowed to visit him once, but Russian authorities rejected two other requests to see him.</p>
<p>Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Thursday that the ministry is considering another visit request from the embassy.</p>
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