Lawyers for American Trevor Reed reported that their client ended his hunger strike stopped the hunger strike. Interfax reports this on Wednesday, November 7, with reference to the lawyers of a US citizen.
According to the defenders, on November 11, he was released from the punishment cell, the premises in which became the reason for the hunger strike, and transferred to his detachment. Currently, the convict is receiving the necessary medication.
On November 9, the republican department of the Federal Penitentiary Service said that Reed did not go on a hunger strike and took food in the colony according to the schedule. His lawyer Sergei Nikitenkov told RIA Novosti about his client's hunger strike. He said that Reed decided to stop eating from November 4 due to his repeated illegal placement in a punishment cell and other violations of his rights in a colony.
On July 30, 2020, the Golovinsky court in Moscow sentenced Trevor Reed to nine years in prison … The American was found guilty under Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Application of violence to a government official, dangerous to life or health”). It was established that on August 16, 2019, residents of a house on Leningradskoye Highway called the police to calm down a drunk man who had quarreled with several women. But towards the arriving policemen, Reed also showed aggression. On the way to the department in his official car, he attacked the police – tore the driver's uniform and hit his colleague.