A former U.S. Marine held in Moscow on suspicion of spying said on Friday he had...
MOSCOW - A former U.S. Marine held in Moscow on suspicion of spying said on Friday he had been threatened by a Russian investigator and harassed in custody, accusations that added to strains in U.S.-Russian relations.
Whelan, whose pre-detention was extended until the end of August at a hearing on Friday in Moscow, told reporters he believed the case against him was politically motivated revenge for U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia. “This is typical prisoner-of-war chapter one isolation technique,” he said. “They are trying to run me down so that I talk to them.”
Russia’s Federal Security Service detained Whelan after an acquaintance handed him a flash drive containing classified information. Whelan’s lawyer says his client thinks he was set up by the acquaintance and the FSB.Whelan’s brother, David Whelan, said his sibling had been falsely accused, wrongfully detained, and will “continue to be mistreated unless one of the governments of the nations of which he is a citizen intervene on his behalf.
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