The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited former Marine Trevor Reed who has just started a nine-year sentence in a Moscow jail, and said the United States was pushing for his release
A Russian court in July convicted Trevor Reed, a student at the University of North Texas, of endangering the lives of two police officers, a charge Reed denies.
“It is important that he gets the medical treatment that he needs, and we will be advocating for that vigorously - and, of course, for his release,” said Sullivan, who described the evidence against Reed as “laughable”. Prosecutors accused Reed of grabbing a police officer who was behind the wheel of a car after the American was detained on Aug. 15 last year. That, they said, caused the vehicle to swerve dangerously. He was also accused of elbowing a second officer.
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