Texas Student Trevor Reed, convicted in Russia for attacking police officers in Moscow in the summer of 2019, was placed in a penalty of an insulator (Shizo) of the Mordovian correctional colony. This is reported by TASS.
Lawyer Reed Victoria Buklova noted that human rights defenders find out the reason for such a decision. She also added that employees of the Mordovian colony do not allow the Americans to communicate on the phone with relatives.
Earlier it was reported that the US Embassy in Russia cannot receive information about the location of the Reda for several weeks. In response to this, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov said that on August 12, the American diploma was officially informed that the American arrived to serve his punishment in a correctional colony in Mordovia. The diplomat also clarified that Russia provides US Embassy information about the Health of Reed.
On July 30, 2020, the Moscow Golovin court sentenced Trevor Rida to nine years in prison. The Americans recognized the guilty under Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Application to the representative of the authority of violence, life-threatening or health”). It was found that on August 16, 2019, the tenants of the house on the Leningradskoye highway called the police to calm the drunk man who had quarreled with several women. But the arriving policemen also showed aggression. On the way to the department in the service car, he attacked the police – broke out the driver and hit his colleague.
His behavior of Reed explained by a liter of drunk vodka. Before the sentence of the sentence, the American also promised to never drink this alcoholic beverage.