{"id":27923,"date":"2019-01-03T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27923"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:22:20","slug":"russia-charges-us-citizen-with-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27923","title":{"rendered":"Russia charges US citizen with espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A lawyer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/02\/us\/paul-whelan-detained-russia-what-we-know\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Whelan<\/a>, an American citizen charged in Russia with espionage, said Thursday he filed an appeal in court against Whelan&#8217;s detention because he believes the arrest was unfounded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Whelan, 48, a Michigan resident and corporate security director, was arrested December 28 in Moscow on suspicion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/02\/us\/russia-detains-us-citizen-paul-whelan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">carrying out an act of espionage<\/a>, Russia has said. His family rejects the accusation, asserting that he was in Russia only for vacation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Russian government announced the arrest Monday; no further details about the specific allegations against him have been released. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A lawyer for Paul Whelan, an American citizen charged in Russia with espionage, said Thursday he filed an appeal in court against Whelan&#8217;s detention because he believes the arrest was unfounded.Whelan, 48, a Michigan resident and corporate security director, was arrested December 28 in Moscow on suspicion of carrying out an act of espionage, Russia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}