PAUL WHELAN

 ARRESTED 2018

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943329/Paul-Whelans-family-says-hellhole-Moscow-prison-stop-attacks-former-Marine-punched-face-glasses-broken-inmate-warden-claims-speak-phones-FROZEN-snow.html    01/09/2024   EXCLUSIVE Paul Whelan's family says hellhole Moscow prison has done NOTHING to stop attacks on former Marine after he was punched in face and had glasses broken by inmate - as warden claims they can't speak to him because phones are FROZEN by snow   Paul Whelan was arrested in 2018 and is currently serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges at the remote IK-17 camp in Mordovia, southeast of Moscow....

04/17/2023   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11965615/Paul-Whelans-family-beg-Biden-admin-free-son-WSJ-journalist-Russian-prison.html Paul Whelan's family beg Biden administration not to seek release of jailed WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich from Russian prison without freeing former US Marine too The family of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan is begging the Biden admin to release their son as negotiations with Russia start to release detained WJ reporter Evan Gershkovich.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/27/report-u-s-offers-russia-deal-to-free-brittney-griner-paul-whelan/   REPORT: U.S. OFFERS RUSSIA DEAL TO FREE BRITTNEY GRINER, PAUL WHELAN PAUL BOIS  07/27/2022

07/09/2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10996717/Biden-calls-sister-Paul-Whelan-Marine-imprisoned-Russia.html Biden FINALLY phones sister of Paul Whelan after family member of ex-Marine detained in Russia complained that he called wife of Brittney Griner but not her sibling   A White House official said that President Joe Biden reaffirmed that the US remains committed to bringing home Whelan and Griner, as well as other Americans being held abroad.

July 8, 2022

https://abcnews.go.com/US/paul-whelans-brother-speaks-russian-detention-us-government/story?id=86442752     Paul Whelan’s brother speaks on his Russian detention, US government response - ABC News

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                                                06/14/2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10916125/Paul-Whelans-sister-demands-coordinated-effort-Biden-administration-free-him.html
 

'Paul is rotting in a Russian Gulag': Detained American's sister demands a more 'coordinated effort' from Biden to free ex-Marine as State official meets jailed basketball player Brittney Griner's WNBA team 

 

The sister of Paul Whelan, a former Marine who has been detained in Russia for four years, called on Tuesday for the Biden administration to do more to bring him home

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                                                10/18/2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10103777/Russian-court-consider-request-transfer-ex-Marine-Paul-Whelan-50-America.html
 

Russian court will consider a request to transfer ex-US Marine Paul Whelan, 50, to America after he was jailed for 16 years in a high security prison for spying

 

Paul Whelan was jailed in June 2020 for allegedly stealing state secrets amid outcry in Washington after a closed-door trial in Moscow with scant evidence produced in court.

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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/marine-vet-paul-whelans-legal-team-reportedly-seeking-transfer-from-russia-to-us-prison/  
   
JULY 09, 2021 

RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY

Marine vet Paul Whelan’s legal team reportedly seeking transfer from Russia to US prison

 

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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/12/very-grim-existence-former-us-marine-whelan-speaks-of-life-in-russian-labor-camp/

12/24/2020

‘Very grim existence’:
Former US Marine Whelan speaks of life in Russian labor camp

The 50-year-old Whelan, giving his first detailed interview since his arrest in December 2018, said he was spending his days sewing prison uniforms in the camp “workhouse” and is taking “one day at a time” — not focusing on his 16-year  sentence on espionage charges that he has always rejected.

Prison guards are waking him at night every two hours to take his photograph, he said....

 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8421471/Russia-sentences-ex-U-S-marine-Paul-Whelan-16-years-jail-espionage.html

 

Ex-US marine Paul Whelan is jailed for 16 years by a Russian court for stealing state secrets - as he holds up a sign saying
'sham trial' and 'Paul's life matters' 

 

A Russian court found ex-U.S. marine Paul Whelan guilty of spying for the United States on Monday and sentenced him to 16 years. He was arrested in December 2018 by Russian agents....