The United States told Russia on Tuesday to stop playing games over a detained f...
MOSCOW - The United States told Russia on Tuesday to stop playing games over a detained former U.S. marine accused of espionage and said it feared his long isolation increased the risk of Moscow trying to extract a forced confession.
The comments from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow were the sharpest yet from Washington in the case of Paul Whelan, who was detained in a Moscow hotel room on Dec. 28 and accused of espionage, a charge he denies. His case has dragged already dire U.S.-Russia relations lower, as has that of another American, prominent investor Michael Calvey, who is under house arrest while being investigated on embezzlement charges.
Kalan complained that Huntsman’s visit was “a joke” since under the rules of Moscow’s Lefortovo jail he was unable to read aloud letters from his family, unable to ask him to sign a power of attorney, and banned from “talking about anything that actually matters”.
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