Malphine Fogel, the mother of Marc Fogel, 65, an American teacher who has been imprisoned in Russia for the past three years, criticized the Biden administration for not freeing her son in the latest prisoner swap, according to the New York Post.

“I don’t think the administration is trying hard enough for him. I guess because he is a common American citizen,” Fogel told the Post of her son who was arrested in Russia in 2021 for carrying half an ounce of medical marijuana.

The United States secured the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans in the largest prisoner swap between the countries since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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