INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An American teacher jailed on drug charges in Russia is being kept from communicating with family freely, his sister told CNN on Wednesday
Marc Fogel, 61, was last month found guilty of drug acquisition, manufacture, smuggling and possession and sentenced to 14 years in a
Fogel said no one has heard his voice since his detention and the family has only received Russian-language letters
State Department to declare him wrongfully detained, a designation applied to basketball star Brittney Griner, who is on trial on similar
drug charges in Moscow.Fogel had worked at the U.S
Embassy in Moscow until May 2021, acccording to the Russian authorities
Marine Paul Whelan most prominent among them.Another ex-Marine, Trevor Reed, was exchanged in April for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko,
who was convicted in the U.S
on drug smuggling charges.
