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On the anniversary of Brittney Griner’s release, Marc Fogel is 2 years into a 14-year prison sentence

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On the anniversary of professional basketball player Brittney Griner’s release from a Russian prison, longtime teacher Marc Fogel, 62, remains detained in a maximum security penal colony about six hours away from Moscow.

He calls his mother, Malphine Fogel, 94, every Monday.

“Our conversations are listened to, so it’s not like I can ask him how he is, but he’s pretty emotional on the phone,” said his younger sister, Anne Fogel. “We talk about his sons and my children. We talk about safe topics. I can’t talk to him about the current efforts being made that we’re using. I can’t talk to anybody about that, actually.”

Anne Fogel, who resides in Montana, said the family is working privately with their legal team both in the U.S. and Russia.

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