H. Res. 1115 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
December 3, 2020. 
Whereas United States citizen Trevor Reed is a resident of 
Granbury, Texas, and a United States Marine Corps vet-
eran; 
Whereas Trevor Reed traveled to Moscow to visit his 
girlfriend on May 16, 2019; 
Whereas Moscow’s Police Service detained Trevor Reed on 
August 16, 2019; 
Whereas Trevor Reed was accused of grabbing the arm of the 
police officer driving the vehicle and elbowing another of-
ficer while en route to the police station, causing the ve-
hicle to swerve and therefore endangering the lives of the 
police officers; 
Whereas the United States Embassy in Moscow has filed nu-
merous diplomatic complaints with the Russian Foreign 
Ministry regarding Trevor Reed being denied consular ac-
cess, communications, medical treatment, family visita-
tions, and other violations of the Vienna Convention on 
Consular Relations; 
Whereas Trevor Reed’s defense team presented video evidence 
from traffic camera footage to the courts that disproves 
the police officers’ statements of supposed endangerment 
and wrongdoing;
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Whereas Trevor Reed’s defense team was denied access to 
additional video evidence from the police vehicle and po-
lice station that had the potential to prove his innocence; 
Whereas the police officers claimed emotional and physical 
damages, but did not sustain any visible injury, or claim 
any time missed from work; 
Whereas the Constitutional Supreme Court of the Russian 
Federation and the Second Court of Cassation of General 
Jurisdiction concurred that Russian procedural law was 
violated in the way that Trevor Reed’s bail was revoked; 
Whereas the United States Embassy in Moscow has filed 
complaints with the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding 
denial of communications with Trevor Reed; 
Whereas during the trial, the defense counsel presented 59 
minutes of traffic camera video that showed the police 
car— 
(1) did not change direction or leave its lane; 
(2) did not swerve; and 
(3) did not stop or slow down; 
Whereas, on July 30, 2020, Golovinsky District Court Judge 
Arnout read a verdict that dismissed all defense evidence, 
witnesses, and government experts and included informa-
tion from the investigator’s case files that were not dis-
cussed or read into the court files; 
Whereas the judge sentenced Trevor Reed to 9 years in pris-
on camp and was ordered to pay 100,000 rubles to each 
police officer for moral and physical injuries; 
Whereas Trevor Reed had already been detained in Russia 
for 1 year at the time of the judge’s verdict; and 
Whereas, the United States Ambassador to Russia, John Sul-
livan, upon Trevor’s sentencing, stated that the prosecu-
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tion’s case and the evidence presented against Mr. Reed 
were ‘‘so preposterous that they provoked laughter in the 
courtroom’’, the conviction and sentence were ‘‘ridicu-
lous’’, and ‘‘justice was not even considered’’: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses support for Trevor Reed, Paul 
Whelan, and all prisoners unjustly imprisoned in the 
Russian Federation; 
(2) condemns the practice of politically motivated 
imprisonment in the Russian Federation, which violates 
the commitments of the Russian Federation to inter-
national obligations with respect to human rights and 
the rule of law; 
(3) urges the United States Government, in all its 
interactions with the Government of the Russian Federa-
tion, to raise the case of Trevor Reed and to press for 
his release; 
(4) calls on the Government of the Russian Federa-
tion to immediately release Trevor Reed and all other 
prisoners arrested for political motivations; 
(5) urges the Government of the Russian Federa-
tion to provide unrestricted consular access to Trevor 
Reed while he remains in detention as required under 
the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations;