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☆ Correspondence in captivity: Letters and phone calls from Paul Whelan reveal Russian tactics toward American detainee
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-23 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

On several occasions, I asked Whelan why he thought the Russians let him call journalists, including me. The letters described the bleak existence in his prison camp, which Paul Whelan called “Camp Lostinthewoods.”“My cell has rotten wooden floors and black mold on the walls. Conditions in Russian camp deteriorateThe next time Whelan called me was more than five months later. The next time Whelan called was in March 2024, after the death of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny in a remote Russian prison colony. Whelan told me he felt “sympathetic and empathetic” for Gershkovich – and he sounded much more hopeful than he had in the past.

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CNN —A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist, to six-and-a-half years in prison, state news agency TASS reported Monday. The hearing, which was held behind closed doors, found Kurmasheva guilty of spreading false information about the Russian army, making her just the latest US journalist to be convicted in the country in recent months. When asked about this possibility earlier Monday, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I have no answer to this question. We need her home.”Before her conviction, Butorin told CNN he was “so confident that she would get back to us that I bought Taylor Swift tickets” for August this year. After her passports were taken, she was fined and placed under de facto – and then formal – house arrest for months, before being charged in December.

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