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The Hill: Senators call for State Department action in case of American teacher imprisoned in Russia
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the State Department to take action in the case of Marc Fogel, the American teacher who is currently imprisoned in Russia…
Senate letter: Casey, Colleagues Push to Reclassify Marc Fogel’s Case as ‘Wrongfully Detained’
Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is leading a bipartisan coalition of Senators to push for the reclassification of Marc Fogel’s case as “wrongfully detained” under the…
Fox News: Marc Fogel: Congress members ask Blinken to add Pennsylvania native to potential Griner, Whelan prisoner swap
A U.S. congressman and a bipartisan, bicameral group of elected officials are pleading with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to include Pennsylvania native Marc Fogel, who is being detained…
Washington Post: Brittney Griner back in Russian court amid hopes of a prisoner
WNBA star Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow court Tuesday for the first time since news broke that the Biden administration is proposing a prisoner exchange to bring her and another…
Fox News: Marc Fogel: Family of American man detained in Russia begs Biden, Blinken to add him to Britney Griner deal
The family of a man being detained in Russia is pleading with the highest ranks of the United States government to include the beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher in their deal with…
New York Times: Brittney Griner and the total lopsidedness of prisoner swaps
The deal is totally lopsided: The two Americans — the basketball star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, a security company executive — are not…
PBS Newshour: American detained in Russia excluded from prisoner
As Russia weighs a prisoner swap to free detained Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, a third American has been held in a Russian prison for more than a year…
Washington Post: This American teacher also sits in a Russian jail, worried nobody cares
Arrested last summer after arriving in Moscow with medical marijuana in his luggage, Marc Fogel has a case that parallels the ordeal of WNBA star Brittney Griner…
PBS Newshour: White House offers Russia deal to release WNBA star Griner, former Marine
The U.S. is now offering to trade prisoners with Russia to bring home basketball star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine from Michigan. Michael McFaul…
CNN: Family of American teacher sentenced to 14 years hard labor in Russia calls on Biden administration to formally negotiate for his release
The family of an American sentenced to 14 years at a hard labor camp in Russia fears that he has been given what amounts to a “a death sentence”…
CNN: 'A death sentence': American teacher sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony
The family of an American sentenced to 14 years at a hard labor camp in Russia fears that he has been given what amounts to a "a death sentence" and is calling on the Biden administration…
New York Times: An American arrested in Russia last year was sentenced by the court handling Brittney Griner’s case
With the spotlight on the case of Brittney Griner, the American basketball star who has been detained in Russia since February, the sentencing of a former U.S. Embassy worker in Russia last month on similar drug charges…
