American Trevor Reed, convicted in the Russian Federation for 9 years for attacking police officers, announced a hunger strike in the Mordovian colony

The US citizen and the former Marine Corps Trevor Reed announced a hunger strike in the Mordovian colony. Previously, he was sentenced by the Russian court to 9 years in the colony for attacking police officers.

“Due to the repeated illegal, according to Reed, his rights in the schizo and other significant violations of his rights in the colony of Red from November 4, 2021 declared a hunger strike,” lawyers Sergey Nikitenkov and Victoria Buklov told Interfax.

They recalled that Trevor Reed does not admit the guilt in the attack on employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The chairman of the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of Mordovia Valery Krutov said that the commission did not receive appeals from Reed and his lawyers regarding the hunger strike.

Earlier, ABC News wrote about the hunger strike of 30-year-old Trevor with reference to his relatives and a Russian girlfriend. The American has been in a single chamber for almost three months, and he has not been given to contact his family for almost four months.

According to Reed's relatives, there is not even a toilet in his small cell. In addition, the convict was not transferred to the items that the American ambassador John Sullivan brought him to the colony on September 7.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow on July 30, 2020 sentenced Rida in the form of nine years in prison in a general regime colony. In addition, the court recovered from him 100 thousand rubles as compensation for non -pecuniary damage in favor of the two police officers who went in the case as victims.

On June 28, the Moscow City Court confirmed the verdict.

The US Embassy in Moscow called the trial of absurdity, since the injured police were confused in the testimony.

As follows from the case file, on August 16, 2019 the police received a message that a man and two women noisily find out relations on the Leningrad highway. Arriving police officers tried to reassure the participant in the quarrel, which Trevor Reed turned out to be, but he allegedly showed aggression and resisted. He was seated by force in a service car and delivered to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Left -Bank district. On the way, the detainee was driving along Belomorskaya Street, allegedly hit the senior sergeant Karmushin with his elbow, and the senior sergeant of the police Lupashin broke his jacket, tearing the shoulder strap. According to investigators, Reed created an emergency on the road.

At the time of the detention, Trevor Reed was a student. Earlier, he served in a marine corps unit, which ensures the protection of the president in Washington and in the residence of the Camp David, the media reported.

Rid’s defense denied the version of the attacks on the police, claiming that the case was falsified. The friend of the American Alina Tsybunik, who, together with two witnesses, was traveling behind the police car, insisted that there was no incident on the road, Rid slept all the way in a patrol car. The recording from the DVR in the PPS machine was not provided to the investigation. The lawyers found a record from road chambers on Belomorskaya Street, which confirmed that the PPS car was slowly driving along the road and did not “wag”. The defense insisted that Rida was greatly beaten in the police department, but this fact was hidden.

US Ambassador to the Russian Federation John Sullivan, as well as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated that Rida Moscow and Washington were discussing at the highest level. In June, after the meeting of the US and the Russian Presidents, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva, the hope appeared that Rida will be transferred to the United States as part of the exchange.