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Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan arrived in the United States after a prisoner exchange.

They were met by U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of their families.

#USA #Kurmasheva #Gershkovich #Whelan #Russia

President Joe Biden's speech on the prisoner exchange with Russia.

#USA #Russia #Gershkovich #Kurmasheva #Whelan #Prisonerswap

The first photo of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich, journalist Alsou Kurmasheva, and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan after the prisoner exchange.

#USA #Russia #Gershkovich #Kurmasheva #Whelan #Prisonerswap

Photo released by @WSJ of #EvanGershkovich, Alsu #Kurmasheva, & #PaulWhelan. Free.

Photo taken today.

#Russia #MafiaState #Hostages #ForeignPolicy #ForeignRelations #diplomacy #alliances #geopolitics #law

A list of those freed in #PrisonerExchange [#hostage release] deal w/ #Russia

Returning to the #UnitedStates (4)
#EvanGershkovich
Vladimir #KaraMurza
Alsu #Kurmasheva
#PaulWhelan

Going to #Germany (12)
Liliya Chanysheva
Kseniya Fadeyeva
Rico Krieger
Kevin Lick
German Moyzhes
Oleg Orlov
Vadim Ostanin
Andrei Pivovarov
Patrick Schobel
Alexandra Skochilenko
Dieter Voronin
Ilya Yashin

#Putin #MafiaState #Hostages #ForeignPolicy #journalism #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #geopolitics #law

#Moscow also released fmr Marine #PaulWhelan, #journalist Alsu #Kurmasheva & Vladimir #KaraMurza, a British-Russian #dissident & Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, sentenced to 25 yrs in prison on treason-related charges. #Russia also released a number of political dissidents.

@WSJ
#MafiaState #Hostages #ForeignPolicy #journalism #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #geopolitics #law

V cpj.org:
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) editor #Alsu #Kurmasheva will be released as part of a prisoner exchange, and calls on Russia to release other jailed journalists and stop harassing those in exile.

http://support.cpj.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=9561.0&dlv_id=25821&pgwrap=n

#AlsuKurmasheva #EvanGershkovich

#BBCNews - #Russian-US journalist jailed for 'false information'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn08d7j1qj5o
Russian-American journalist #Alsu #Kurmasheva has been jailed for 6.5 years by a court in the central city of #Kazan on a charge of spreading false information about the Russian army
#FreeAlsu #AlsuKurmasheva #RFERL #JournalismIsNotACrime

RFERL journalist and US citizen Alsu #Kurmasheva has spent so far 251 days in #Russian detention.
#FreeAlsu
#JournalismIsNotACrime

RFERL journalist #Alsu #Kurmasheva has spent 120 days in a #Russian jail
#FreeAlsu
https://pressroom.rferl.org/free-alsu-kurmasheva

WSJ journalist #Evan #Gershkovich has spent more than 320 days in a #Moscow prison
#IStandWithEvan
https://www.wsj.com/news/evan-gershkovich

##JournalismIsNotACrime