Russia reportedly releases Wall Street Journal reporter, former US Marine in prisoner swap

Irish Times

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Gershkovich was wrongly sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison last month after he was found guilty of espionage in a case that The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. government condemned as a sham.
NBC News
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The Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and British-Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza also were freed as part of the swap, along with five German citizens and seven Russian citizens.
CNBC
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Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan and former U.S. Marine, has been jailed in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage-related charges that both he and the U.S. government dispute.
Fox News
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The 42-year-old was serving a horrific 25-year prison sentence for “treason” in a hellhole Vladimir Putin penal colony in Siberia.
The Sun

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