A Russian court on Monday sentenced American and former Marine Robert Gilman to seven years and one month in prison for assaulting prison staff and state investigators, according to the local prosecutor's office.
Gilman, 30, was sentenced in October 2022 and has already been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for assaulting a police officer while intoxicated.
Prosecutors in the city of Voronezh, about 300 miles south of Moscow, where Gilman is imprisoned, said in a statement that Gilman attacked prison staff and state investigators on separate occasions in the fall of 2023.
Reuters could not immediately reach Gilman's lawyer.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow did not respond to a request for comment.
Russian state news agency RIA previously reported that Gilman had pleaded guilty to all charges, saying his defense team had told TASS that he had come to Russia to study and obtain citizenship.
RIA reported that Gilman told a court last week that he was forced to use force after a prison warden inflicted pain on his genitals and an investigator insulted his father.
Gilman is one of at least 10 people who has been in prison in Russia for two months, after a prisoner exchange between Moscow and the West on August 1 in which 24 people, including three Americans, were released. He is one of the few Americans to do so.
