US President Joe Biden has welcomed home the three Americans who were sentenced to years in Russian penal colonies after secret 'sham' trials and now free under a major East-West prisoner swap.
has welcomed home the three Americans who were sentenced to years in Russia n penal colonies after secret "sham" trials and now free under a major East-West prisoner swap .
British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Pulitzer Prize winner who had written for the Washington Post, was also freed. He had been sentenced to 25 years' jail for treason in 2023. Eight Russians — who were being held in the US, Germany, Poland, Norway, and Slovenia — were released too. They included Russian hitman Vadim Krasikov, who was jailed in Germany for killing a former Chechen militant in a Berlin park in 2019.
Earlier on Thursday, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the prisoner exchange, said that traitors to his country should rot and die in prison, but that it was more useful for Moscow to get its own people home. "Today is a powerful example of why it's vital to have friends in this world," Mr Biden said earlier.The Biden administration has now brought home more than 70 Americans detained in other countries as part of deals that have required the US to give up a broad array of convicted criminals, including for drug and weapons offences.
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