A Moscow court has extended the detention of Travis Leake, an American man detained by Russia on drug charges.
The U.S. and Kremlin last month confirmed they are in talks about a potential prisoner swap to free Gershkovich but so far have not found a clear path to a deal.
In court on Thursday, Leake again denied the charges against him and pleaded with the U.S. to trade him if possible. Leake, who speaks Russian, was the front man of his band Lovi Noch but had also worked with some well-known Russian rock bands that have been critical of Vladimir Putin’s government. In a decade of knowing Leake, Spirin said, he had never heard he was selling drugs and said he did not believe the charges against him. “Not 1%,” Spirin said.
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