Trevor Reed, an American and former Marine at the moment serving a sentence in Russian jail, is reportedly "coughing up blood" and is being denied medical care after he was uncovered to a different prisoner affected by "energetic tuberculosis."
The publicity occurred in December, and Reed has lately reported the shortage of take care of his medical points, in accordance with a tweet from Jason P. Rebholz, a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Reed was sentenced to 9 years in jail over allegations that he assaulted Russian law enforcement officials whereas he was within the nation visiting his girlfriend. Members of his household advised Newsweek final month they have been involved they might by no means see him once more if the scenario between Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate. Additionally they stated that he was detained with no proof and that Russian authorities refused to contemplate proof they stated would show he did nothing incorrect.
"The decide refused to listen to any of the proof, they usually had already determined what they'll do. They gave him the longest sentence for that cost in trendy Russian historical past," Joey Reed, Trevor's father, advised Newsweek relating to the decision a Russian court docket reached in July 2020.
He reportedly went on a starvation strike in November in protest of his conviction and the situations wherein he was being pressured to stay, together with the truth that he had not been allowed to talk together with his household for over 100 days.
Newsweek has reached out to the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for remark.
"Trevor Reed was subjected to a prolonged, close-contact publicity to a prisoner who had energetic TB in December—that prisoner grew to become gravely sick shortly after his encounter with Trevor. Regardless of starting post-exposure prophylaxis for different inmates, Russian authorities have refused to do the identical for Trevor and have to date refused to check him," Reed household spokesperson Jonathan Franks stated in an announcement to Newsweek.
"Trevor continues to complain about ache in his chest (associated to respiratory, not his coronary heart) and authorities proceed to refuse him any medical therapy in any way. Any suggestion by Russian authorities that they've offered Trevor significant medical care is patently false," Franks stated.
He additionally stated that jail authorities allegedly confiscated authorized paperwork he meant to present to his lawyer, which have been set to be filed with higher-level authorities alleging that he had been denied a TB check.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has repeatedly referred to as for the discharge of Reed, in addition to the discharge of Paul Whelan, one other ex-Marine who was arrested in Russia in 2018 and convicted in 2020 on espionage costs and is at the moment serving a 16-year sentence.
Blinken has additionally mentioned the discharge of the 2 People with Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov, which Whelan's household advised Newsweek final month they have been appreciative of.
Replace 2/16/22, 6:42 p.m. EST: This story has been up to date with an announcement from Reed household spokesperson Jonathan Franks.
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