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- Russia files new assault charges against US citizen jailed for attacking law enforcement officers</p>
<p>August 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM</p>
<p>MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors have filed fresh charges against Robert Gilman, a U.S. citizen and ex-Marine serving an eight-year sentence for assaulting law enforcement officers and a prison official, court documents show.</p>
<p>Gilman, 30, was first arrested in 2022 for a purportedly drunken assault on a Russian police officer. His sentence has been extended several times following convictions for assault against prison officials and a state investigator during his incarceration.</p>
<p>Gilman previously told a court he was forced to use violence after the prison inspector had caused pain to his genitalia and after the investigator had insulted his father.</p>
<p>The new charges, filed in late July in a court in Voronezh in southern Russia, also concern assault against prison staff.</p>
<p>Gilman could not be reached for comment and his lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>The Kommersant newspaper reported that Gilman's defence team had requested he receive a more lenient sentence, citing an unspecified mental health condition.</p>
<p>The next court hearing in his case is scheduled for August 25.</p>
<p>Gilman is one of around nine Americans behind bars in Russia.</p>
<p>The most recent U.S.-Russia prisoner swap, in April, saw Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American spa worker who lived in Los Angeles, swapped for a Russian whom the U.S. had accused of spiriting sensitive electronics to the Russian military.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy PapachristouEditing by Andrew Osborn)</p>
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