{"id":1412805,"date":"2022-03-31T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412805"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:15:48","slug":"russia-says-jailed-american-on-hunger-strike-but-denies-he-caught-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-says-jailed-american-on-hunger-strike-but-denies-he-caught-tb\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says jailed American on hunger strike, but denies he caught TB"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Frussia-says-jailed-american-on-hunger-strike-but-denies-he-caught-tb%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=1412805&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-31T115417Z_1_LYNXNPEI2U0MT_RTROPTP_0_RUSSIA-USA-COURT_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Reed attends a court hearing in Moscow\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, stands inside a defendants&#8217; cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia July 30, 2020. REUTERS\/Maxim Shemetov\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 31, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Tom Balmforth<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday that imprisoned ex-U.S. Marine Trevor Reed had declared a hunger strike to protest at disciplinary action taken against him, but denied he had contracted tuberculosis and said that his health was \u201csatisfactory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Texan\u2019s parents met U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday, having raised fears that their son had caught tuberculosis in the jail in Russia\u2019s Mordovia region where he is serving a nine-year sentence. <\/p>\n<p>They said their son had been exposed to an inmate with active tuberculosis in December, had not been tested or received proper medical care despite his health worsening, and had been put in solitary confinement and begun a hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>The White House voiced concern about reports of the hunger strike on Wednesday and called on Russia to provide Reed with adequate medical care immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was convicted of endangering the lives of two police officers while drunk on a visit to Moscow in 2019. He denied the charges and the United States called his trial a \u201ctheater of the absurd.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a written statement to Reuters on Thursday, Russia\u2019s Federal Penitentiary Service denied that Reed had been in contact with anyone suffering from tuberculosis and said that repeated tests for the illness had come back negative. <\/p>\n<p>It described his health as satisfactory and said that medical workers were constantly monitoring him.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cT. Reed declared a hunger strike on Monday \u2026 because he disagreed with a punishment imposed on him by the facility\u2019s disciplinary commission in view of the circumstances of an offence and the previous behaviour of the convict,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It did not say what the punishment was or why exactly it was imposed. <\/p>\n<p>Washington has called on Moscow to release him as well as Paul Whelan who was jailed for spying and also denied the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Biden\u2019s meeting with Reed\u2019s parents, the White House said \u201cthe President reiterated his commitment to continue to work to secure the release of Trevor, Paul Whelan, and other Americans wrongfully held in Russia and elsewhere.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey, Guy Faulconbridge and Nick Macfie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, stands inside a defendants&#8217; cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"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-1412805","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\/1412805","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\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412805\/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=1412805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}