{"id":1410128,"date":"2022-03-30T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410128"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:46:51","slug":"parents-of-ex-marine-held-in-russia-protest-outside-white-house-say-biden-promised-meeting-22-days-ago-then-went-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-of-ex-marine-held-in-russia-protest-outside-white-house-say-biden-promised-meeting-22-days-ago-then-went-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of Ex-Marine Held in Russia Protest Outside White House, Say Biden Promised Meeting 22 Days Ago Then Went Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-of-ex-marine-held-in-russia-protest-outside-white-house-say-biden-promised-meeting-22-days-ago-then-went-quiet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410128&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The parents of Trevor Reed, a former US Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2019, protested outside the White House on Wednesday, calling for a meeting with President Biden that they say was \u201cpromised.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/09\/biden-calls-family-of-russia-held-ex-us-marine-trevor-reed\/\">22 days ago when the president said<\/a> that he would have someone call us immediately when he got back to DC and set it up,\u201d Paula Reed, Trevor\u2019s mother, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/30\/politics\/trevor-reed-russia-hunger-strike-cnntv\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office staff have not called us. And we wanted to be here to bring attention to Trevor\u2019s case and to let them know that we did not forget. We\u2019re waiting for that phone call and we want the meeting the president promised us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paula and her husband, Joey, are stationed in front of the North Lawn of the White House, wearing T-shirts with their son\u2019s image printed on them along with the legend: \u201cFree Trevor Reed: Wrongfully Imprisoned by Russia since 2019.\u201d\u00a0They also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freetrevorreed\/status\/1509132067069734916\/photo\/1\">hung a large red banner<\/a> with Trevor\u2019s image and the same text. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/trevor-reed-parents-white-house-06.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Paula and Joey Reed claim no one from the White House has contacted them even though President Biden promised them they would. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Reeds intend to stay outside the White House until Friday, though Paul Reed told CNN Wednesday that \u201cif we need to stay longer, we might do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Reed was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/30\/russian-court-upholds-nine-year-prison-sentence-for-former-marine-trevor-reed\/\">sentenced to nine years in prison in July 2020<\/a> after being convicted of assaulting two Russian police officers after he reportedly became blackout drunk at a party the previous year. Reed\u2019s family and supporters say he was convicted of trumped-up charges so the Kremlin could use him as a political bargaining chip.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Reed\u2019s parents said Trevor had embarked on a hunger strike to protest his treatment by Russian officials \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/08\/ex-marine-trevor-reed-locked-up-in-russian-prison-goes-on-hunger-strike-family-says\/\">second one<\/a> since he began his sentence. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/trevor-reed-parents-white-house-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trevor-reed-parents-white-house-03.jpg\" alt=\"Trevor Reed\" class=\"wp-image-21714355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/trevor-reed-parents-white-house-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/trevor-reed-parents-white-house-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/trevor-reed-parents-white-house-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Trevor Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison after he was found guilty of assaulting two Russian police officers. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTrevor had some injury where he thinks he might have a broken rib. Plus, he has all the symptoms of active tuberculosis. He went to a prison hospital for about 10 days. And they didn\u2019t treat him,\u201d Joey Reed said.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s father added that his son requested to stay in the hospital but was instead put in solitary confinement. While in prison, Trevor, 30, has been coughing up blood and has \u201csomething protruding out of his side,\u201d his father claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>The only treatment Reed has reportedly been provided with is aspirin.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/09\/biden-calls-family-of-russia-held-ex-us-marine-trevor-reed\/\">spoke with the former Marine\u2019s family<\/a> over the phone earlier this month, after failing to meet face-to-face during a trip to Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the White House, the president reiterated \u201chis commitment to doing everything he can to bring their son home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, press secretary Jen Psaki indicated that while an in-person meeting didn\u2019t happen during the president\u2019s visit, the White House was \u201cworking on a time for the president to meet with his family over the short term.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have a time or date on that or anything like that, but that is something we are going to work toward,\u201d she told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of Trevor Reed, a former US Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2019, protested outside the White House on Wednesday, calling for a meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}