АНУ-ын тэнгисийн цэргийн хүчний бэлтгэл офицер, ОХУ-д хоригдож буй Роберт Гилманыг эрүүдэн шүүсэнтэй холбоотойгоор түүний ар гэрийнхэн нэн даруй суллахыг шаардаж байна.
Роберт Гилман зургаадугаар сарын сүүлчээр “диссоциатив ступор” буюу ухаан санааны алдагдлын байдалд орж, улмаар Воронеж хотын иргэний эмнэлгийн сэтгэцийн тасаг руу шилжүүлэгдсэнийг холбогдох эх сурвалжууд мэдээлжээ. Тэрээр харилцах чадваргүй болж, хоолойгоор дамжуулан хооллож байгаа бөгөөд эмнэлгийн зүгээс шүүхийн зөвшөөрөл байсан ч түүний ээжийг уулзуулахаас татгалзсан байна. “Global Reach” байгууллагын мэдээлснээр, түүнийг шоронд хорих хугацаанд харгис хэрцгий харьцсан нь биеийн байдлыг нь ийнхүү хүндрүүлжээ.
АНУ-ын Төрийн нарийн бичгийн дарга Марко Рубио өнгөрсөн сард Филиппинд ОХУ-ын Гадаад хэргийн сайд Сергей Лавровтой уулзах үеэрээ Гилманыг суллах асуудлыг хөндсөн байна. Гэвч ОХУ-ын зүгээс түүнийг суллах эсэх нь тодорхойгүй хэвээр байгаа бөгөөд АНУ-ын тал түүнийг яаралтай эмнэлгийн нүүлгэн шилжүүлэлтэд хамруулахыг эрмэлзэж байна.
Роберт Гилман 2022 оны нэгдүгээр сард Воронеж хотод цагдаагийн ажилтанд халдсан хэргээр баривчлагдаж, хоёр жилийн хорих ял сонссон юм. Улмаар өнгөрсөн арванхоёрдугаар сард шүүхээс түүнд хорих ангийн хамгаалагчдад халдсан гэх үндэслэлээр нэмж найман жилийн ял оноожээ. Тэрээр ОХУ-д хоригдож буй АНУ-ын найм ба түүнээс дээш тооны иргэдийн нэг бөгөөд АНУ-ын засаг захиргаа тэднийг суллах чиглэлээр дипломат оролдлого хийсээр байна.
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The family of Robert Gilman, a former U.S. Marine and English teacher imprisoned in Russia, is appealing to Russian authorities for his release, warning that he is near death following months of alleged torture in jail.
“The treatment that [Gilman] has suffered at the hands of the Russian prison guards has been far worse than anything else we have seen before,” Kieran Ramsey, chief investigator of the hostage advocacy group Global Reach, told PBS Newshour on Monday.
Reuters reportedlast week that Gilman had slipped into a state assessed as “dissociative stupor” in late June and was transferred from a prison hospital to the psychiatric ward at a civilian hospital in the southern city of Voronezh.
Global Outreach said Gilman has been unable to communicate, his eyes remain shut and he is being fed through a feeding tube. Ramsey said the organization receives updates on Gilman through his family and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Gilman’s lawyer Irina Brazhnikova confirmed to Russian media that he has been held in a psychiatric ward at a civilian hospital since early July. The hospital has reportedly barred Gilman’s mother from visiting him despite a court order allowing her to do so.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was said to have raised Gilman’s imprisonment with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in the Philippines last month. It remains unclear whether Russia is willing to release him.
Ramsey said the U.S. State Department fears that classifying Gilman and several other Americans held in Russian prison as subjects of wrongful detention would “raise the cost in securing their release.”
“We’re literally on an hour-by-hour basis hoping that Mr. Gilman hangs on and that we can secure for him some kind of lifesaving medical evacuation out of Russia,” Ramsey told PBS Newshour.
Gilman, 32, was arrested in January 2022 in Voronezh after an incident in which he was accused of assaulting a police officer. A court sentenced him to two years in prison that October.
In December, a judge in Voronezhhanded him an additional eight-year prison sentence for allegedly attacking guards at the correctional facility where he was being held.
Gilman is among at least eight U.S. citizens jailed in Russia whom the Trump administration is trying to have released.
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