3.3.22
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 had a close-contact exposure to tuberculosis in December, and he told an attorney who visited Wednesday that he coughs up blood several times a day, experiences pain in his lungs, and believes he has a fever, the Reed family said. Russian authorities have declined to give him a tuberculosis test or access to medicine, phone calls to his family, or even written communications with his attorneys in recent weeks, they added.
