Pa. Legislators ask the new secretary of state for help to Rodowit Oakmont Marc Fogel from the Russian prison

The Congress Delegation in Pennsylvania hopes that the Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be able to help call the teacher Pennsylvania Marc Fogel from the Russian prison.

They sent an open letter to Rubio, which was sworn in on Wednesday, calling him to employ the resources of the State Department to lead the fog out of prison and return to the United States.

Fogel, which comes from Oakmont in Alleghena, was detained at the Moscow airport in August 2021 after finding marijuana in luggage. He was legally allowed to employ the product in Pennsylvania through the state of the medical program. He lived in Russia since 2012, where he taught at an English -American school.

Fogel was not part of the Russian swap of a prisoner mediating by the Biden administration in August 2024, To the disappointment of his family.

Then the Fogel family in the United States said: “We are completely broken and outraged that Marc was left while the US government brought other Americans home. “

The letter to Rubio is the latest effort of legislators from Pennsylvania to pay attention to the status of Fogel and press his release. Legislators from Pennsylvania sent a similar letter in August last year, when it seemed that the Biden administration resident the exchange of prisoners. Although this effort failed.

Renewed commitment to MARC is now needed more than ever, “says the letter. “For this purpose, please do everything in your power to immediately take Marc home”

The ALO letter has presented specific steps, which, as they hope, will take Rubio and the Department of State. They include the re -message of monthly requests that the American embassy staff visited Marc, organizing habitual medical inspections, regularly involved with the Fogel family and providing the Congress Congress Fogel. “

The State Department did not immediately answer at the request for comment.

The letter was signed by both senators of Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dave McCormick, as well as 11 out of 17 representatives of the state, including members of both parties.

Rubio was sworn in to the Secretary of State on Wednesday after a relatively undisherited confirmation process. His voice of the confirmation was unanimous.

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