Ex-Marine Trevor Reed, 30, has been imprisoned for almost three years in a Russian prison.
Now he tells about the time on the inside.
– There was blood all over the walls, he says.
American Trevor Reed, 30, was recently released from a Russian prison following a prisoner exchange. Now he talks about the nasty conditions among seriously mentally ill prisoners, reports Reuters.
– There was blood all over the walls, where prisoners had taken their own lives, killed other prisoners or tried to do so, he says.
Together with seven other prisoners, he was placed in a cell in a psychiatric clinic. He says that most inmates served long sentences for violent punishments – including murder – and that he feared for his life every day.
– The inside of the cell was terrible. The toilet was just a hole in the ground and there was feces on both walls and floors, he says.
In an interview with CNN, he said that he thought he was placed in the clinic because he was constantly appealing. That they wanted to silence him.
Reed says that he did not even dare to hope to be released when he was imprisoned.
– It was people at the clinic who looked like zombies, he says.
He was released in late April following an exchange with Russian Konstantin Yaroshenko, a pilot who has served a long prison sentence in the United States for drug offenses.
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Trevor Reed traveled to Russia in May 2019 to learn Russian.
He was arrested for drunkenness in connection with a party outside Moscow and accused of violence against the police.
Trevor Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia.
The US government has said that his verdict was due to the frosty relations between the US and Russia and his background in the military.
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