Bi-partisan News Conference on Americans Detained in Russian Prisons

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., hugs Elizabeth Whelan, sister of Paul Whelan, who has been detained in Russia since 2018 and whose reasons for confinement are unknown after a news conference at the US Capitol calling for the release of Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine, who has been detained since 2019 and was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison, and Paul Whelan in Washington, DC., on Thursday, July 29, 2021. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI