 The president weighing in after a Russian court convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, saying he's not letting up on securing his release. Here's ABC's Patrick Riva. We watched a Russian judge in the city of Yekaterinburg deliver that verdict that was expected, sentencing Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, to 16 years in a prison camp, finding him guilty of espionage.