Congress Members To Biden Administration: Do More To Free Americans In Russian Prisons, Start With Marc Fogel
Marc Fogel, now in his 60s, was sentenced by a Russian court to 14 years in prison in June 2022 for allegedly “large-scale” cannabis smuggling.
Fogel was, in fact, a legal medical marijuana patient in Pennsylvania where he used cannabis as an alternative to opioids for chronic pain following spinal surgery.
Fogel, who previously worked at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, was employed as an English teacher at the Anglo-American School in Moscow at the time of his arrest in August 2021 when he entered Russia with about a half-ounce of medical marijuana prescribed by his Pennsylvania doctor.
This week the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted in favor of Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-Penn.) bipartisan concurrent resolution calling for Fogel’s immediate release from Russian detention.
“This resolution sends a clear, bipartisan message to …