Both were convicted of spying on charges the U.S. says were fabricated.
Darla Miles has more on Gershkovich and Whelan after Russia agreed to free them in a major multi-country prisoner swap.
His newspaper and the U.S. had denounced the legal proceedings, which saw only two days of hearings, as a sham and have denied the allegations. He was convicted of spying charges, which he and the U.S. have claimed were fabricated in order to seize him as a political hostage.
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