Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFall on his page in twitter addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin And he stated that on the eve of a meeting with the American leader Joe Biden, we need to release prisoners in the Russian Federation Trevor Reed and Paul Wilan.
“If Putin wanted stable, predictable, normalizing relations with the United States, he would have been able to release unjustly in the conclusion of the Americans Reda and Wilan to a meeting with Biden next month,” the diplomat stressed.
MacFol accompanied the publication by the statement of the representative of the family of convicted Treaty of Reed Jonathan Frankz that the US citizen has infected with coronavirus in the Russian colony.
On July 30, 2020, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow made sentenced Trevor Rida in the form of nine years of imprisonment. The 28-year-old American was found guilty under Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Application to the representative of the authority of violence, life-threatening or health”). According to investigators, the young man attacked the police officers. In the US Congress, they called for Russia to free the American, calling the case “politically motivated.”
On June 15, 2020, the Moscow City Court sentenced the US Paul Wilan by the 16 years of the strict regime colony, recognizing the guilty of espionage. US citizen detained in Moscow on December 28, 2018. On the flash drive seized, the information constituting the state secret was discovered. The lawyer of the Americans argued that the carrier had personal information about his rest in Russia during previous visits.