A poster photograph of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed stands in Lafayette Park close to the White Home, on March 30, 2022. (Patrick Semansky / AP)
Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia, has ended a starvation strike and is being handled in his jail's medical facility, Russian information companies reported on Monday, citing the jail service and his attorneys.
The 30-year-old Texan is serving a nine-year jail time period after being convicted of endangering the lives of two cops whereas drunk on a go to to Moscow in 2019. He denied the fees and the US known as his trial a "theatre of the absurd."
Reed's mother and father mentioned final week that Reed had made the starvation strike to protest at being put in solitary confinement and never receiving correct medical care regardless of fears that he had tuberculosis.
"On Friday, April 1, the convict Reed ended his starvation strike and started to obtain meals. On the identical day, at his request, he was despatched to the medical facility," the Federal Penitentiary Service was quoted saying by the Interfax and RIA information companies.
Reed's well being is "passable," the jail service was quoted as saying.
Reed's attorneys mentioned he had ended the starvation strike after being seen by docs, and that he required medical remedy, Interfax reported.
Reed's mother and father mentioned he had been uncovered to an inmate with lively tuberculosis in December, however their son had not been examined for the sickness regardless of a fast deterioration in his well being.
The jail service mentioned Reed had gone on starvation strike on March 28 to protest disciplinary motion in opposition to him. It mentioned he had repeatedly examined destructive for tuberculosis and had not come into contact with anybody contaminated.
Reed additionally went on starvation strike for nearly every week final 12 months to protest his incarceration and alleged rights abuses.
(Reporting by Reuters; Modifying by Conor Humphries and David Holmes)
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