Democratic lawmaker calls for release of Paul Whelan from Russian custody ...Middle East

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) re-upped calls for the release of American Paul Whelan from Russian custody on Thursday, five years after he was apprehended. “Five years is five years too long, Paul Whelan should be home right now,” she said on X, formerly Twitter. “No American should be held for half a decade after a false arrest and sham trial. I'm calling on Vladimir Putin to release Paul now.” Whelan, who lived in Stevens’s district before being detained, was arrested in 2018 on espionage charges. The Russian government alleged Whelan traded information with a Russian intelligence officer, which Whelan and the U.S. government denied. American officials claim that Whelan was fram

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