According to a statement from his brother, Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine carrying out a sentence in Russia on espionage charges, was attacked by another prisoner in a Russian facility.
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WSJ reporter’s appeal denied by Moscow Court
The Russian courts decided on Thursday to deny the appeal of a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, keeping him in detention until August.
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A United States government initiative to put pressure on Russia to release Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich was launched on Monday, when the State Department declared him to have been “wrongfully detained” after his arrest by Russian security forces last month.
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