在俄罗斯被关押逾三年的美国教师 Marc Fogel 获释回美
2025年2月11日，在俄罗斯被关押三年多的美国教师 Marc Fogel 获释回美。白宫国家安全顾问 Michael Waltz 当天发表声明称，特朗普总统的特使 Steve Witkoff 正携 Fogel 离开俄罗斯领空；特朗普、Witkoff 与总统的顾问团队谈成了一项交换。声明称，这项交换是俄方释放善意之举，也是朝着结束乌克兰战争的正确方向迈进的信号；Fogel 当晚就将踏上美国土地，与家人和亲人团聚。
Fogel 是来自宾夕法尼亚州的历史教师，曾在莫斯科的英美学校任教。2021年8月，他在返回俄罗斯时于莫斯科 Sheremetyevo 机场被捕，海关在其行李中查出约17克大麻。Fogel 及其家人表示，那是美国医生为他脊柱手术后的慢性疼痛开具的医用大麻。2022年6月，俄罗斯一家法院以大规模毒品走私等罪名判处他14年监禁，在最高戒备等级的监狱服刑。
2024年12月，美国国务院将 Fogel 正式认定为被错误拘押。这一认定使他的案件进入美国政府处理被扣押美国公民事务的专门渠道。他的家人多年来一直呼吁美方把他接回国。
2月11日晚，Fogel 抵达美国后被带到位于华盛顿特区的白宫，特朗普在白宫迎接他，国务卿 Marco Rubio 与众议院议长 Mike Johnson 等人在场。Fogel 肩披美国国旗，与特朗普一同在白宫外交接待室对记者讲话。他说，自己「感觉是现在地球上最幸运的人」，并对特朗普与 Witkoff 表示感谢。
特朗普称这次交换的条件「非常公平、非常合理」，但没有说明美方在这项交换中作出了什么安排，也没有回答他是否就此事直接与俄罗斯总统普京通话。特朗普还表示，2月12日还将有另一个人获释，但没有透露此人姓名。
Fogel 的家人当天发表声明称，在三年多的拘押之后，Marc Fogel 终于回家，他们「无比感激、如释重负、激动万分」，并称这是全家「最黑暗、最痛苦的一段日子」之后开始疗愈的时刻。
（来源：白宫）
American Teacher Marc Fogel Freed by Russia After More Than Three Years in Detention
Marc Fogel, an American teacher held in Russia for more than three years, was released and returned to the United States on February 11, 2025. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said in a statement that day that Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy, was leaving Russian airspace with Fogel, and that Trump, Witkoff, and the president's advisers had negotiated an exchange. The statement called the exchange a show of good faith from the Russians and a sign of moving in the right direction to end the war in Ukraine, and said Fogel would be on American soil that night, reunited with his family and loved ones.
Fogel, a history teacher from Pennsylvania, had taught at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. In August 2021, returning to Russia, he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport after customs officers found about 17 grams of marijuana in his luggage. Fogel and his family said it was medical marijuana prescribed by a U.S. doctor for chronic pain following spinal surgery. In June 2022, a Russian court convicted him of large-scale drug smuggling and sentenced him to 14 years in a maximum-security penal colony.
In December 2024, the U.S. State Department formally designated Fogel as wrongfully detained, a designation that moved his case into the U.S. government's dedicated channel for Americans held abroad. His family had campaigned for years for his return.
On the evening of February 11, after landing in the United States, Fogel was brought to the White House in Washington, D.C., where Trump greeted him, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson among those present. With a U.S. flag draped over his shoulders, Fogel spoke to reporters alongside Trump in the Diplomatic Reception Room. He said he felt like "the luckiest man on Earth right now" and thanked Trump and Witkoff.
Trump called the terms of the exchange "very fair, very reasonable," but did not say what the United States had given in return, and did not answer whether he had spoken directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about it. Trump also said another person would be released on February 12, without naming that person.
Fogel's family said in a statement that day that after more than three years of detention Marc Fogel was finally coming home, that they were "beyond grateful, relieved, and overwhelmed," and that after the darkest and most painful period of their lives, they would begin to heal.
(Source: The White House)
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图片来源：图：2025年2月11日晚，特朗普在位于华盛顿特区的白宫迎接获释的美国教师 Marc Fogel，两人握手，Fogel 肩披美国国旗。（白宫官方照片，Daniel Torok 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons） / Photo: President Donald Trump greets freed American teacher Marc Fogel at the White House in Washington, D.C., on the evening of February 11, 2025, a U.S. flag draped over Fogel's shoulders. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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