“About 50 days ago, he was transferred from the prison to the hospital in what's been described as a state of a dissociative stupor…He's being fed through a tube that runs into his nose, down into his stomach.”

PBS NewsHour · Aug 9 · Marine veteran Robert Gilman near death in Russian custody, family says

“We are 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.”

PBS NewsHour · Aug 9 · Marine veteran Robert Gilman near death in Russian custody, family says

“That mental pressure, plus the physical abuse he suffered, is likely what contributed to his current medical jeopardy right now.”

PBS NewsHour · Aug 9 · Marine veteran Robert Gilman near death in Russian custody, family says