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Supreme Court upholds sentence of scientist jailed for espionage

Today the Russian Supreme Court upheld a sentence the Moscow City Court earlier handed down on Russian researcher Igor Sutyagin, who was found guilty of spying. The Moscow City Court on April 7 sentenced Sutyagin to 15 years in prison. The court ruled that his term be counted from the date of his detention in Obninsk in the Kaluga region on October 29, 1999. (17-AUG-04)

Published: August 17, 2004

Today the Russian Supreme Court upheld a sentence the Moscow City Court earlier handed down on Russian researcher Igor Sutyagin, who was found guilty of spying. The Moscow City Court on April 7 sentenced Sutyagin to 15 years in prison. The Court ruled that his term be counted from the date of his detention in Obninsk in the Kaluga region on October 29, 1999. (17-AUG-04)

Sutyagin s lawyer, Boris Kuznetsov, said that he intended to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. He added that the court of jury that had found the scientist guilty had been formed with a violation of criminal procedure. One of the jurors was simultaneously a candidate to the court of jury of the Moscow district military court, Kuznetsov said. However, Prosecutor General s Office spokesman Yevgeny Naidyonov said that this argument had been rejected by the Supreme Court as groundless.

You can read in details about Sutyagin case problems in the Human Rights Watch report

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