American Paul Whelan must stay in Russian prison through the end of May. His charges are still not clear.
By Amie Ferris-Rotman Amie Ferris-Rotman Moscow reporter for the Washington Post. Email Bio Follow March 14 at 11:38 AM MOSCOW — Paul Whelan, an American citizen imprisoned in Russia on spy charges, sharply criticized Russia’s handling of his case on Thursday and suggested he was being poorly treated at the Moscow prison where he has spent the past three months.
There are fears he is being interrogated. A citizen of four countries — Ireland, Canada and Britain, in addition to the United States — Whelan receives consular visits, but they are heavily restricted. Whelan looks out from a glass cell in a Moscow courtroom. “It seems fairly clear, although of course we don’t know, that [Paul] is being purposely isolated so that some sort of confession can be contrived and the Russians can save face,” Ryan Fayhee, a former Justice Department lawyer working pro bono for the Whelan family, told The Washington Post.
Though President Trump has yet to comment on Whelan’s detention, and the response from the State Department has been minimal, there is a growing chorus of discontent in Congress. The House of Foreign Affairs Committee has called Whelan’s detention “a blatant disregard of international law.”
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