Wall Street Journal editor predicts 'bogus' Gershkovich conviction as trial opens

Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker predicted reporter Evan Gershkovich’s trial will end in a “bogus” conviction, as court proceedings begin this week after 15 months of pretrial detention in Moscow.

“To even call it a trial,” Tucker wrote Tuesday in a letter from the editor, “is unfair to Evan and a continuation of this travesty of justice that already has gone on for far too long.”

Gershkovich, a 32-year-old staff reporter at the Journal, was on assignment in...