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The 30-year-old Texan is serving a nine-year jail term after
being convicted of endangering the lives of two policemen while
drunk on a visit to Moscow in 2019. He denied the charges and
the United States called his trial a "theatre of the absurd".
His parents said that Reed, who is in a prison in the region of
Mordovia, was exposed to an inmate with active tuberculosis in
December, but that their son had not been tested for the illness
despite his health rapidly deteriorating.
He was put in a prison hospital for 10 days, but then returned
to the prison last week without having received "meaningful
medical care beyond an X-ray which was taken incorrectly", they
said.
"Trevor's Mordovian lawyer was able to see him (on Tuesday) and
confirmed that Trevor began a hunger strike... to protest being
sent back to solitary while injured and having TB," the parents
said in a statement.
"Soon after he returned, Trevor asked authorities at the IK-12
gulag to return to the hospital. Instead, authorities returned
him to solitary confinement," they said.
Russia's prison authorities did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Reed staged a hunger strike late last year to protest his
incarceration and alleged rights abuses before calling it off
almost a week later, having lost weight. Russia's prison
authority denied he had been refusing food or that his rights
were being violated.
(Reporting by Reuters)
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