The US State Department has asked Russia to release American citizen Marc Fogel on humanitarian grounds, his family and his lawyer say
The US State Department has asked Russia to release American citizen Marc Fogel on humanitarian grounds, his family and his lawyer told CNN.
His legal team believes the request was made because of his age and his health condition, though the State Department did not provide them with details about the appeal.Fogel, 61 years old, has chronic back pain which is why he traveled into Russia with cannabis, his family said.Fogel worked for nearly a decade as a history teacher at the Anglo-American School in Moscow, where children of US diplomats were among his students.
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