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The White House said Tuesday that an American school has been released in Russia for more than three years. Mark Fogle, who was arrested in 2021 for possessing medical hashish, is expected to return to the US soil by the end of the day.
The White House said his release came as part of talks between the United States and Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Fogle leaves Russia with President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Watkov.
Fogle, 63, was sentenced to 14 years in the Russian Penalt Colony after being convicted of drug trafficking in 2022.
Here’s what to know about his arrest in Fogle and Russia:
Who is Mark Fogle?
Foggle Butler grew up in Pennsylvania. He studied at Pennsylvania’s Indiana University and proceeded to teach history courses in international schools to attend the children of US diplomats. This work brought Fogle and his family to the world. He held teaching positions in Colombia, Malaysia, Oman, Venezuela and Russia.
Starting in 2012, Mark Fogle and his wife, Jane, taught at the Anglo -American School in Moscow. In the summer of 2021, Fogle told his wife that he would retire after one more year’s education in the Russian capital, According to the Washington Post. Fogle was detained only after the summer holidays.
Why was Mark Fogle arrested?
On August 14, 2021, Fogle was taken into custody at Moscow’s Shermetio International Airport on charges of occupation of cannabis. Fogle and his family have said that the cannabis was used to treat his waist chronic pain.
In this case, the WNBA’s all -star Britney Greenner has been compared to this case, which was arrested in February 2022 at a Russian airport for keeping cannabis oil cartridges. He proved a crime and was sentenced to nine years in a labor camp. In December of the same year, he was released in prison.
Fogle was wrongly detained by the Foreign Department under former President Joe Biden in December. Fogle’s family and lawmakers requested the release of Foggle from Russian custody that they were disappointed that they were not detained soon.
“I don’t think the (Biden) administration has helped us,” said Fogle’s mother Malfain Fogle. CBS Pittsburg in July 2024.
Attempts to bring Foggle home
Foggle’s family requested the US government to release long -standing teachers and criticized the Biden administration and the State Department’s response in recent years.
Malfain Fogle filed a lawsuit against the then Secretary of State Antony Blankin and the US Department of State for not being detained by the US Department of State for not being detained. Local television station WTAE reported.
The attempt to liberate Fogle was also picked up by legislators, especially Pennsylvania’s representative Mike Kelly. Kelly and a group of bilateral legislators in December 2023 wrote a letter to Blankin requesting the government to be classified to arrest Fogle for incorrectly detain At least six of the 11 set standards of rating have met.
Kelly and Pennsylvania representatives also introduced Chris Delozio and Brendon Boyle Mark Foggle ActWhich would demand from the State Department that they would present documents and communications to the Congress as to whether it was being kept incorrectly by the US citizen.
Foggle Family ‘relieved’ after the release news
“We are grateful, relieved and overwhelmed that after more than three years of detention, our father, husband and son, Mark Fogle, is eventually coming home,” the Foggle family said in a statement.
The family said, “It has been the most dark and painful period of our lives, but today, we start to recover.”
What did the Trump administration say about Fogle’s arrest?
In a statement announcing the release of Fogle, the White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said. In Ukraine. “
Waltz said on Tuesday, “By tonight, Mark Fogel will be on the US soil and will reunite with his family and loved ones thanks to President Trump’s leadership.”
Malaphine Fogle told New York Post In July 2024, the then Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, promised that when he would bring his son home when he promised to bring his son home just before taking a stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania And was injured in an attempt to kill.
He said that Malaphine was ready to take a stage with Foggle Trump before the shots ringing that day CBS News.
Partnership: Francisa Chambers, USA Today. Reuters
