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Freed American Paul Whelan is wearing Biden’s flag pin every day, his lawyer says

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Paul Whelan is "looking forward to rebuilding his life" and will return to Michigan next week , his lawyer says.

He was sentenced to 16 years in a Russian penal colony where he says he was subjected to forced labor.

The former Marine was arrested in December 2018 and faced trial for espionage in Russia .

The U.S. designated him as a wrongful detainee and swapped him with two Americans in a multi-country trade.

Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in a Russian penal colony on charges of treason.

She was arrested in January while visiting her family in the country.

The State Department says it hasn't made a determination on whether she was wrongfully detained.

The White House spokesman for national security affairs calls the sentence "vindictive cruelty".

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