Marine Veteran Paul Whelan, Teacher Marc Fogel Among Americans Still Imprisoned in Russia

While professional basketball player Brittney Griner was freed from prison and is expected to return to American soil on Dec. 9, U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan remains behind bars in Russia on espionage charges that he and the U.S. government say are false.
Griner, 32, was serving a nine-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to bringing cannabis products through Russian customs in February.
She was released in a prisoner swap for 55-year-old Viktor Bout, who was in the midst of a 25-year sentence for selling millions of dollars worth of weapons to a designated foreign terrorist group, prosecutors said before his conviction in 2011….}