– A Moscow courtroom declined on Tuesday to rule on an attraction from a jailed former U.S. marine, who's in search of to overturn a nine-year sentence for an assault on two Russian law enforcement officials which he denies.
Trevor Reed, 30, from Texas, is serving out his time period after being convicted in 2019 of endangering the lives of two law enforcement officials whereas drunk on a go to to Moscow. America has referred to as his trial a “theatre of the absurd”.
Moscow’s Second Cassation courtroom stated Reed’s attraction towards his conviction can be despatched first to a decrease courtroom so he may familiarise himself with the case supplies, the TASS information company reported, citing courtroom spokeswoman Dinara Muslimova.
The case can be despatched again to the cassation courtroom as soon as he has performed this, TASS cited Muslimova as saying.
“Very disenchanted that justice has once more been denied,” U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan stated on Tuesday.
“His attraction was not determined right this moment, the proceedings proceed, and Trevor stays in jail for a criminal offense he didn’t commit.”
Reed’s dad and mom stated in March he had gone on starvation strike to protest towards being put in solitary confinement, and he had not been receiving correct medical care regardless of fears that he had tuberculosis.
Russian information companies reported final Monday that Reed had ended the starvation strike and was being handled in his jail’s medical centre.
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