Igor Sutyagin

Igor Sutyagin Vyacheslavovich (Russian Игорь Вячеславович Сутягин, scientific transliteration Igor Sutyagin Vjačeslavovič; born January 17, 1965) is a Russian nuclear physicist.

Sutyagin was sentenced in April 2004 to a five -year-old warehouse in prison for spying after he allegedly passed a supposedly as a consulting company ( alternative futures) camouflaged company of DIA information about nuclear weapons. This information, however, According to Sutyagin come from freely accessible media.

Defense and human rights activists criticized the verdict. The court should have worked with leading questions. An exculpatory report had not been considered.

The case is currently being handled (2004) the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

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

In July 2010, the U.S. and Russia exchanged agents. To this end, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pardoned four because " contacts with Western intelligence agencies " condemned prisoners. Among them, according to the Russian government and Igor Sutyagin.