Igor Vyacheslavovich Sutyagin

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Igor W. Sutyagin

Igor Wjatscheslavowitsch Sutjagin ( Russian Игорь Вячеславович Сутягин , scientific transliteration Igor Vjačeslavovič Sutjagin ; born January 17, 1965 in Moscow ) is a Russian nuclear physicist .

Sutyagin was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for espionage in April 2004 after allegedly disclosing information about Russian nuclear weapons to a US Defense Intelligence Agency company disguised as a consulting firm (alternative futures) . According to Sutyagin, this information comes from open media.

Defense and human rights activists criticized the verdict. The court is said to have worked with leading questions . An exonerating opinion was not taken into account.

In 2002 Sutyagin turned to the European Court of Human Rights . His case was admitted to trial in 2008 and partially ruled in his favor in 2011. Russia was obliged to pay the plaintiff € 20,000 because it was not permissible to detain the prisoner for more than four years without justification. It was also criticized that an exchange of judges, again without justification, was not permitted. However, the court declined to object to the selection of evidence or the questioning of witnesses.

On April 27, 2004, Amnesty International declared Igor Sutyagin a political prisoner . It was the first case of a political prisoner in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991.

In July 2010, the US and Russia exchanged agents. To this end, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pardoned four prisoners who had been sentenced for “contacts with Western secret services”. These were Igor Sutjagin, the double agent Sergei Skripal , Alexander Zaporozhsky, convicted of espionage in 2003, and ex-KGB officer Gennady Vasilenko. Anna Chapman was one of the ten other agents . Sutyagin settled in London after the exchange .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Euro court backs spy-swap Russian Igor Sutyagin. May 3, 2011, accessed May 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Russian Arms-Control Expert Wins Case At Strasbourg Rights Court. May 3, 2011, accessed on May 10, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Spy swap: who's who? In: The Guardian . July 9, 2010, accessed September 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Russia and US spy swap. July 9, 2010, accessed March 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sutyagin, Igor Vyacheslavovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сутягин, Игорь Вячеславович (Russian); Sutjagin, Igor Vjačeslavovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow