The last time Paul Whelan was seen in public ... The US government designates Mr Whelan as "wrongfully detained". The video was filmed at a labour camp by Kremlin-backed channel RT.
Convicted as an American spy, Paul Whelan is preparing to spend Christmas in a Russian labour camp as talks to negotiate his release have faltered. In his first detailed interview since his arrest ...
Paul Whelan, who was freed Thursday as part of the prisoner swap, was the longest-serving American deemed wrongfully detained in Russia. More than five years had passed since FSB agents threw the ...
Former Marine Paul Whelan ... supplier when Russian authorities arrested him in 2018 on espionage charges. Two years later, a Russian court sentenced Whelan to 16 years hard labor.