Russian Court Upholds 9-Year Sentence for Former US Marine Reed

Reuters
By Reuters
June 29, 2021International
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Russian Court Upholds 9-Year Sentence for Former US Marine Reed
US ex-marine Trevor Reed stands inside a defendants' cage during his verdict hearing at the Golovinsky district court in Moscow, Russia, on July 30, 2020. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

MOSCOW—A Russian appeals court on Monday upheld a nine-year prison sentence for Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine who was convicted last year of endangering the lives of two police officers in August 2019, charges he denies.

U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan, who returned to Moscow last week after leaving in April amid a diplomatic crisis, said he regretted the court’s decision.

“Today marks another sad milestone as Trevor Reed’s appeal was denied,” Sullivan said, in comments shared on Twitter by the embassy’s spokesperson.

“(It is) another absurd miscarriage of justice in Russia as the world watches,” Sullivan said.

Trevor Reed
Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed stands inside a defendants’ cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on July 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a Twitter post, “We are deeply troubled” by the court’s decision and that Washington would work on Reed’s behalf “until Russia does the right thing and returns him to his family.”

Reed’s defense team plan to lodge a further appeal, the RIA news agency cited Reed’s lawyer as saying.

President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden discussed the topic of prisoner swaps at talks in Geneva this month.

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