{"id":116612,"date":"2021-06-16T21:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=116612"},"modified":"2021-06-16T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:14:39","slug":"biden-vows-to-keep-pressing-russia-to-release-american-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/biden-vows-to-keep-pressing-russia-to-release-american-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden vows to keep pressing Russia to release American prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>President Biden said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the fate of U.S.\u00a0citizens detained in Russia during the leaders&#x27;\u00a0summit in Geneva.<\/li>\n<li>Putin, after the leaders&#x27; meeting in Geneva, gave no details about a potential prisoner swap but said that discussions would continue.<\/li>\n<li>In May, the Biden adminstration called on Moscow to release former U.S. Marines\u00a0Paul Whelan\u00a0and\u00a0Trevor Reed, who are serving 16-year and nine-year prison sentences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Joe Biden said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the fate of U.S.\u00a0citizens detained in Russia during the leaders&#x27;\u00a0summit Wednesday in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To the family of the detained Americans, we discussed it and we are going to follow through with that discussion. I am not going to walk away on that,&quot; Biden said at the conclusion of a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>During his press conference after the meeting, Putin gave no details about the potential prisoner swap but said that the discussions would continue.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken had said that potential prisoner swaps would be on the table for the Putin-Biden discussion. Blinken and other top officials joined Biden for meetings with their Russian counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Blinken called on Moscow to release former U.S. Marines\u00a0Paul Whelan\u00a0and\u00a0Trevor Reed, who are serving 16-year and 9-year prison sentences, respectively, according to a State Department readout of a conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>Reed is a former U.S. Marine who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison last year after he was convicted of assaulting a police officer during a night out in Moscow. Whelan, also a former Marine, was arrested in 2018 on charges of acting as a spy for the United States. At the time he was arrested, Whelan was visiting Russia to attend a wedding, according to his brother David Whelan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both Whelan and Reed deny the charges against them.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, called the evidence against Reed &quot;flimsy.&quot; If this case had been brought in a U.S. court, not only would it have been thrown out, but the prosecutors would be investigated for bringing it forward in the first place,&quot; Sullivan told NBC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to the summit, Reed&#x27;s parents publicly appealed to Biden to seek their son&#x27;s release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#x27;ve also said they wouldn&#x27;t object to a prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington if it meant the return of their son.\u00a0&quot;We don&#x27;t care how he comes home, if they want to exchange Trevor for some criminals that you know are low-level criminals or whatever,&quot; Trevor&#x27;s father, Joey Reed, said on NBC&#x27;s &quot;TODAY&quot; show on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;re fine with that. We want our son home,&quot; said Trevor&#x27;s mother, Paula Reed. David Whelan, however, has expressed concerns about the idea of a prisoner swap.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Politics<\/h2>\n<p>Read more of CNBC&#x27;s politics coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biden and Putin agree to resume nuclear talks, return ambassadors to posts<\/li>\n<li>Schumer backs repeal of 2002 Iraq War authorization as House prepares vote<\/li>\n<li>Heat wave worsens across the American West, raising concerns of power outages and wildfires<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;He is innocent, he was wrongly accused. We would rather see the door come open and him come out rather than some sort of negotiated release of Russian convicts,&quot; Whelan said Monday on &quot;TODAY.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Putin, who was first to address the press after the bilateral meeting, said that talks with Biden were &quot;very productive&quot; and &quot;there has been no hostility&quot; between the two. <\/p>\n<p>In a separate press conference, Biden described the talks as &quot;good, positive&quot; and reiterated that he was hopeful the two leaders could work together on common interests.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/16\/biden-vows-to-keep-pressing-russia-to-release-american-prisoners.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the fate of U.S.\u00a0citizens detained in Russia during the leaders&#x27;\u00a0summit in Geneva. 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