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2024-08-01 19:36:57 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DBBFE54F04B1EBF6B799DD651EB7378D1D57CAF2040BB26F843437C0A202A7EB
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Two of the three Americans released were arrested/convicted after Trump left office in Jan 2021: Gershkovich was arrested in 2023 & convicted in 2024: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-long-struggle-to-free-evan-gershkovich-from-a-moscow-prison/ Kurmasheva was also detained in 2023 & convicted in 2024: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-us-journalist-alsu-kurmasheva-prison-sentence-ukraine-war/ Whelan was arrested in 2018 & convicted June, 2020: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-whelan-imprisoned-russia-christmas-plea-biden/
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