NEW YORK — Trevor Reed's fate hangs in the balance amid sky-high tensions between the U.S. and Russia, where the 30-year old former U.S. Marine has been detained on trumped up charges for over two and a half years.
But now, amid a stalled push to secure his release, Reed's health is dangerously deteriorating, according to his family, with fears that he may have contracted tuberculosis in the remote penal colony where he's been held without direct communication with his family for nearly eight months now.
Reed and another former Marine, Paul Whelan, have spent years in Russian custody now on charges that their families and American officials say were fabricated by Russia in order to seize them as bargaining chips. In July, one month after that that summit, Reed was moved to a prison camp in Mordovia, a region about 350 miles from Moscow. Whelan has spent over a year and a half in a camp in the same region.
"We told him to stay strong -- we're going to fight for him," Paula Reed said last week during a press conference, her voice filling with emotion. Whelan, 51, was security executive for the auto parts company BorgWarner when he was arrested in late December 2018 in his hotel room by FSB agents while visiting Moscow for a friend's wedding. He was accused of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in prison in a closed trial on charges his family and U.S. officials have said were fabricated.
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