Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-08-02 00:43:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E2AC79F2CC1804AC4F12371E2EB834F2AF755E9F7D8E49AF5BD3E8A0B4B4A3EF
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Two of the three prisoners were taken & tried after Trump left office in 2021; he was not POTUS at the time – Gerskovich was arrested in 2023: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-long-struggle-to-free-evan-gershkovich-from-a-moscow-prison/ So was Kurmasheva: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-us-journalist-alsu-kurmasheva-prison-sentence-ukraine-war/ Only Paul Whelan was arrested (2018) & convicted (June 2020) during Trump’s presidency: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/world/paul-whelan-sentenced-russia-intl/index.html
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