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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

him back home. >> reporter: paul whelan's odyssey in russia's criminal justice system began december 28th, 2018. a former marine, he was arrested in moscow during a trip for the wedding of a fellow marine to a russian woman. >> ended up taking a group of them as part of their tour through the kremlin. and then that evening he disappeared. >> reporter: they accused him of being a spy. whelan had visited russia before, in 2006, while on a two-week leave. born in canada to british parents, whelan moved to the u.s. as a child. he has u.s., canadian, british, irish citizenship. whelan joined the marine reserves in 1994. he did multiple tours in iraq. and during the 2006 deployment, he was accused by the military of attempting to steal more than $10,000. he was court-martialed and discharged for bad conduct two years later. after the military, whelan

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Anderson Cooper 360

he is in unheated sewing factory all day long, six days a week. very little food. almost no fresh fruits and vegetables. so it's about the worst existence you can think of. as i said before, it's surviving, but it's not living. that's going to take a toll on a person. he has lost about 20% of the weight that he had on december 28th, 2018. his hair is going white, which may not be that much of a surprise for people of our age. but he is aging. at some point you can imagine that his mental health

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CNN Newsroom Live

u.s. would never give up on whelan. moscow is treating whelan different than griner, totally illegitimate reasons. whelan said he was surprised that he had been left behind. jim sciutto reports. >> reporter: paul whelan's odyssey in russia's criminal justice system began on december 28th, 2018. former marine, he was arrested in moscow during a trip for the wedding of a fellow marine to a russian woman. >> ended up taking a group of them as part of their tour through the kremlin. >> russia's federal security service accused him of being a spy. whelan had visited russia before, including as early as 2006 while on a two-week deployment from iraq. whelan moved to the u.s. as a child. he has u.s., canadian, british, irish citizenship. whelan joined the marine

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Hallie Jackson Reports

if there was a plan available, i think they would have already put it into play, but i believe everyone is highly committed, and is doubling down on that commitment to get paul home. and i'm doubling down on my commitment to push them to make that happen. i can't believe it's been almost four years. you know, the fsb set paul up on december 28th, 2018, and ever since then, he has been enduring russian prisons for a crime he didn't commit, while the russian authorities are messing about with the u.s. government, trying to score points. and we have to bring it to an end. >> did president biden give you any sense of time line when paul might be able to get home? >> no, i mean unfortunately, once an american has been wrongfully detained, the time line is up to whatever that foreign country, that hostile foreign nation is doing. i wish there was a time line. i wish i knew when paul would be home. i can't imagine what he's going

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