President Joe Biden praised his “absolute courage” Saturday, but to his colleagues Evan Gershkovich was “simply doing his job as a journalist,” before he was detained in Russia over spying allegations.
At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, Biden vowed to continue to work to free Americans believed to be wrongly detained abroad, including Gershkovich, whose family was in attendance.
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