Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan greeted by Biden, Harris before emotional reunion with loved ones after historic prisoner swap with Russia
put in a headlock and forced to the ground when he was cuffed by Russia ’s feared intelligence agency agents last year, newly-released video of his arrest shows.after last week’s historic prisoner swap deal with Moscow, had been arrested by the plain-clothed FSB intelligence officers on espionage charges in March last year., showed an unsuspecting Gershkovich sitting inside a Yekaterinburg restaurant in a clandestinely bugged source meeting when the agents suddenly stormed in.
Just moments before the violent arrest, the video captured Gershkovich discussing the story he was working on with the source. “We won’t write that we have even seen the documents,” Gershkovich is said to have responded, adding he’d attribute anything to an “anonymous source.” Gershkovich, the US government and his employer all repeatedly — and strenuously — denied the allegations but he was convicted and Gershkovich was greeted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris when he touched down on US soil last week.Gershkovich was among the slew of prisoners freed as part of the largest multi-country prisoner swap since the Cold War.
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