“The arrest of Evan Gershkovich marks the advent of a new hostage diplomacy”, titre The Wall Street Journal.
“In recent years, Americans detained by foreign states on charges deemed spurious or political by the United States have outnumbered those taken prisoner by terrorist or criminal organizations, according to national authorities and independent analysis.”
Latest example: this correspondent in Moscow from the Wall Street Journal arrested on Wednesday March 29 by the FSB and accused of espionage. “Let him go”, asked the President of the United States, Joe Biden, Friday, March 31.
A special diplomatic representative
“These incidents have become so frequent that the United States has created a bure machine