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The Sverdlovsk Regional Court building, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where a hearing in the espionage case of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich was held on July 19.in a maximum security prison by a Russian court last month after he was found guilty of espionage in a case that The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. government have condemned as a sham.
Whelan, 54, who has been detained since visiting Russia for a friend’s wedding in 2018, was also convicted of espionage and has been serving a 16-year sentence in a penal colony.— wrongly imprisoned in Russia were released and on their way home today, part of a major multinational prisoner exchange the likes of which has not been seen since the Cold War.
The highest-profile U.S. prisoners in Russia right now are Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.in prison in July. He has been in prison for some 70 weeks now, Allie Raffa, an NBC News White House correspondent, said Thursday morning on MSNBC. Whelan, 54, who has been detained since visiting Russia for a friend’s wedding in 2018, was also convicted of espionage and has been serving a 16-year sentence in a penal colony.The trade is a rare example of cooperation amid heightened political tensions between the U.S. and Russia, including from sanctions imposed on Russia and Russian officials over the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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