EU Lawmakers Call for Release of WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich and Others Held in Russia


欧洲议会议员周四通过的这项不具约束力的决议是一项动议的一部分，欧洲议会发起该动议谴责俄罗斯今年3月的总统选举是一场骗局，并提议限制与俄罗斯总统普京的关系。


Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich speaks with his lawyers while standing behind a glass wall for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow earlier this week.

欧洲议员批准了一项决议，呼吁“立即无条件释放”在俄罗斯关押的所有政治犯，包括《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal)记者埃文·格什科维奇(Evan Gershkovich)。格什科维奇被关押在莫斯科的一所监狱里，等待审判已有一年多时间。 6park.com
European lawmakers approved a resolution calling for the “immediate and unconditional release” of all political prisoners held in Russia, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been in custody in a Moscow prison awaiting trial for more than a year. 6park.com
   
欧洲议会493名议员周四通过的这项不具约束力的决议是一项动议的一部分，欧洲议会发起该动议谴责俄罗斯今年3月的总统选举是一场骗局，并提议限制与俄罗斯总统普京(Vladimir Putin)的关系。 6park.com
The nonbinding resolution approved Thursday by 493 lawmakers was part of a motion in the European Parliament condemning Russia’s March presidential election as a sham and proposing limiting relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 6park.com
 
据俄罗斯国家报纸《消息报》(Izvestia)报道，俄罗斯外交部发言人扎哈罗娃(Maria Zakharova)称，欧洲议会不承认俄总统选举的决定无关紧要。 6park.com
Russian foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the decision of the European Parliament not to recognize Russia’s presidential election as insignificant, the Russian state newspaper Izvestia reported. 6park.com
  
俄罗斯联邦安全局(Federal Security Service, 简称FSB)于去年3月29日拘留了格什科维奇。格什科维奇从事记者工作是获得俄罗斯外交部许可的，当时他正在俄罗斯叶卡捷琳堡市执行报道任务。 6park.com
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, detained Gershkovich, who was accredited to work as a journalist by Russia’s Foreign Ministry, on March 29 last year while he was on a reporting assignment in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. 6park.com
 
格什科维奇因被控从事间谍活动而被捕，但他本人、《华尔街日报》和美国政府都坚决否认这一指控。美国国务院已宣布格什科维奇被不当拘留，这意味着美国政府会致力于争取他的获释。 6park.com
Gershkovich is being held on an allegation of espionage that he, the Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny. The State Department has declared him wrongfully detained, a designation that commits the government to work for his release. 6park.com
 
欧洲议会的这项决议还呼吁让政治犯及其家属获得赔偿。此前，莫斯科一家法院周二驳回了格什科维奇的律师反对他被拘留的上诉，这意味着这名记者将至少被关押到6月30日。 6park.com
The European Parliament resolution, which also calls for political prisoners and their families to receive compensation, follows the decision Tuesday of a Moscow court to reject an appeal by Gershkovich’s lawyers against his detention, meaning the reporter will remain behind bars until at least June 30. 6park.com
 
俄罗斯调查人员尚未公开提出证据支持他们对这位32岁记者的指控。俄罗斯称是在依据本国法律行事。 6park.com
Russian investigators haven’t publicly presented evidence to back up their allegation against the 32-year-old reporter. Russia has said that it is acting in accordance with its laws. 6park.com
 
欧洲议员周四重申，普京和克里姆林宫政权对普京头号反对者阿列克谢．纳瓦尔尼(Alexei Navalny)的死亡负有“刑事和政治责任”，并呼吁对后者死亡的情况展开国际调查。 6park.com
The European lawmakers Thursday reiterated that Putin and the Kremlin regime bear “criminal and political responsibility for the death” of Alexei Navalny, Putin’s most prominent opponent, and called for an international investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. 6park.com
  
今年2月，纳瓦尔尼死在一个偏远的北极监狱，当时他正在那里为三项监禁判决服刑，刑期长达30多年，他和他的支持者称这些指控都是捏造的。 6park.com
In February, Navalny died in a remote Arctic prison camp where he was serving three prison sentences amounting to more than 30 years on charges he and his supporters said were fabricated. 6park.com
 
克里姆林宫驳斥了有关普京牵涉杀害纳瓦尔尼的指控，称这种指控毫无根据。 6park.com
The Kremlin has dismissed allegations that Putin was involved in killing Navalny, calling such accusations unfounded. 6park.com
 
自2022年2月普京发动入侵乌克兰的行动以来，克里姆林宫已先后出台多部法律惩罚那些批评俄方军事行动的人士，钳制独立媒体言论，将支持和平的作家和艺术家称为“外国代理人”，并禁止俄罗斯人公开表达对这场战争的看法。 6park.com
Since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has introduced laws to punish critics of its military campaign, muzzled independent media, branded pro-peace authors and artists as “foreign agents” and denied Russians the ability to publicly express opinions about the war. 6park.com
  
许多普通民众被卷入镇压行动，遭到罚款和长期监禁，主管部门认为他们诋毁俄军声誉，或散布有关俄罗斯陷入停滞的军事行动的不实信息。 6park.com
Many ordinary citizens have been swept up in a crackdown and handed fines and lengthy jail times for what authorities view as discrediting the army or spreading misinformation about Russia’s stalled military campaign. 6park.com
 
除格什科维奇外，周四的决议还列出另外15名政治犯的名字，其中包括拥有美俄双重国籍、为总部位于布拉格的Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty工作的记者库尔玛舍娃(Alsu Kurmasheva)。她因被指控未登记为外国代理人于去年10月被拘，随后还被指控散布有关俄军方的虚假信息，事涉她帮助编辑过的一本关于乌克兰战争的书。库尔玛舍娃否认有不当行为。 6park.com
In addition to Gershkovich, Thursday’s resolution named 15 other individuals as political prisoners, among them journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who holds dual U.S.-Russian citizenship and works for Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She was taken into custody in October on a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent, before also being charged with spreading false information about Russia’s military because of a book she helped edit about the war in Ukraine. Kurmasheva has denied wrongdoing. 6park.com
 
俄罗斯主管部门已拒绝美国驻俄大使馆对库尔玛舍娃的领事探视请求。欧洲议员们敦促俄罗斯官员允许领事官员探视拥有双重国籍的囚犯，并立即为健康状况危急的政治犯提供全面的医疗服务。 6park.com
Russian authorities have denied Kurmasheva consular visits from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The European lawmakers urged Russian officials to grant consular officials access to prisoners with dual citizenship and to provide immediate access to comprehensive medical care for political prisoners whose health is in critical condition. 6park.com
 
决议提到了因叛国罪服刑25年的记者和异见人士卡拉-穆尔扎(Vladimir Kara-Murza)。由于在2015年和2017年两次中毒，他两次陷入昏迷状态，医生说如果得不到适当治疗，他可能在两年内死亡。 6park.com
The resolution mentioned journalist and dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason. Suffering the effects of two poisonings in 2015 and 2017, he has twice been in a coma, and his doctors say he could die within two years without proper treatment. 6park.com
  
曾获得诺贝尔和平奖的组织“纪念人权中心”(Memorial Human Rights Center) 70岁的联合主席奥列格·奥尔洛夫(Oleg Orlov)也被列入决议名单。今年2月，他因批评乌克兰战争而被认定犯有诋毁俄罗斯军队罪，被判处30个月监禁。奥尔洛夫拒绝参与庭审，他认为这是“一次不公正的审判”，并指责普京政权扼杀国内的自由。 6park.com
Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old co-chairman of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning group, the Memorial Human Rights Center, was also listed in the resolution. He was found guilty in February of discrediting the Russian military and sentenced to 30 months in prison for criticizing the war in Ukraine. Orlov refused to participate in what he considered “an unfair trial” and accused Putin’s regime of stifling freedom in the country. 6park.com
 
克里姆林宫驳斥了关于俄罗斯政府不公正地监禁那些不认同俄政策或不支持普京的人的指控。上个月，普京在俄罗斯大选中击败了他的最有力挑战者，再次当选总统，获得又一个六年任期，这使他有望成为与斯大林(Stalin)齐名的在位时间最长的俄罗斯领导人。 6park.com
The Kremlin has dismissed accusations that it is unjustly incarcerating those who don’t agree with its policies or don’t support Putin. Last month, the Russian leader secured a further six years in power after an election that saw his most credible challengers sidelined, setting him on a path to match Stalin as Russia’s longest-serving leader. 6park.com
 
决议称，欧洲议员们向“成千上万抗议普京政权的俄罗斯人的勇气”致敬。 6park.com
European lawmakers saluted what they called the “bravery of the thousands of people in Russia who are protesting against Putin’s regime,” according to the resolution.