VORONEZH, August 11. /TASS/. The attorney of US citizen Robert Gilman, who was convicted in Russia for violence against a government official, doesn’t rule out his pardoning.
"I have learnt about his potential pardoning from journalists. It is most likely true, but I haven’t seen any documents yet," Irina Brazhnikova told TASS.
Reuters reported earlier that Gilman has been released for health reasons and is on his way back to the United States.
Gilman was detained on January 19, 2022, at the Voronezh train station for drunken disorderly conduct on the Sukhumi-Moscow train. During his arrest, he kicked a police officer. The court initially sentenced him to 4.5 years in a standard security penal colony. In May 2023, his sentence was shortened by one year.
A new criminal case was opened after Gilman refused to comply with prison routines and physically assaulted a prison officer. In the penal colony, he repeatedly struck investigators and assaulted an inspector in the pretrial detention center, where he was transferred during the investigation.
