Nearly three years after her brother was detained in Moscow, Elizabeth Whelan is keeping her eye on the goal: bringing him home.
Paul Whelan, a US citizen and former Marine, was detained at a Moscow hotel on December 28, 2018, and arrested on espionage charges, which he has consistently and vehemently denied. He was convicted and sentenced in June 2020 to 16 years in prison in a trial denounced by US officials as unfair.
"In terms of getting Paul home, we support whatever the United States government wants to do," she told CNN, but noted that she would like to see the US government be more agile and quick in responding to wrongful-detention cases. And with tensions ratcheting up between the US and Russia, she is concerned about a potential impact on the case of her brother and Trevor Reed, another American detained there.
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