President Joe Biden on Aug. 2 said he is not giving up on securing the release of Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who is still imprisoned in Russia after not being included in a prisoner exchange finalized this week.
“We’re not giving up on that,” the president told reporters outside the White House in Washington.
Asked what he can do, Biden added, “Do you want me to tell you ahead of time so he doesn’t get out?”
Fogel, 63, is serving a 14-year prison sentence after being found with marijuana in Russia in 2021.
Reporter Evan Gershkovich, journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, and Marine veteran Paul Whelan were among the U.S. prisoners secured in a multicountry swap hammered out by officials with the United States and other countries this week, but Fogel was not one of them….
