From WSJopinion: Arresting a journalist who speaks Russian and has family ties to the country is designed to send an intimidating signal to others, writes Nicholas Daniloff
I was Moscow bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report, on Aug. 30, 1986, when the KGB arrested me and falsely accused me of being a spy. I know what Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and his family are going through.
I had only days left on my five-year tour. I met a friend, or so I thought, to say farewell in a park near my apartment. We exchanged parting gifts. A white van I had noticed earlier pulled up beside me. The door slid open abruptly and half a dozen men emerged. A heavyset man threw me forward, pulled my hands behind my back and snapped handcuffs on my wrists.
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