Post by Wave Trekker on Sept 28, 2010 10:28:14 GMT -5
Hmmm, interesting story posted today...here's pieces of it...
The Russian arms researcher released from prison in a Cold War-style spy swap has mixed feelings about the deal and wishes more of his colleagues had been freed.
Igor Sutyagin, still struggling to adjust to life in Britain following 11 years behind bars in Russia, told the Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he assumed more people would be liberated when he signed the confession that set the swap into motion.
Well, maybe, he should have had attorney before negotiating...
Sutyagin told the AP he knew of at least eight fellow academics languishing in Russian prisons, including physicist Valentin Danilov, who is serving a 14-year-sentence for working with allegedly sensitive information that his defenders argue has long been in the public domain.
That part does sound pretty crappy though...again, attorney time...
"I would be glad if I sat next to them on the plane to Vienna," Sutyagin said, describing the flight that flew him from Moscow to freedom on July 9.
Sutyagin, 45, was one of four Russians released in a dramatic exchange that followed the arrest of 10 deep-cover Russian agents operating in the United States.
But his was not the classic case of spy-for-spy. Russia watchers have described his 1999 conviction on charges of treason as a part of campaign by the Kremlin to intimidate the nation's academics, and Sutyagin's case has been championed by Russian and international human rights campaigners. Sutyagin himself has long insisted on his innocence.
Well, I'm kind of confused here, was he coerced into a confession when he was innocent or something?
But he said he also had in mind the prisoners — in both in the U.S. and in Russia — whose fate hung on his move. He said he did not want to put other families through that just to preserve his own honor.
Well it's a bit confusing or a write, but then, upon reading it on Yahoo...interesting though...
The Russian arms researcher released from prison in a Cold War-style spy swap has mixed feelings about the deal and wishes more of his colleagues had been freed.
Igor Sutyagin, still struggling to adjust to life in Britain following 11 years behind bars in Russia, told the Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he assumed more people would be liberated when he signed the confession that set the swap into motion.
Well, maybe, he should have had attorney before negotiating...
Sutyagin told the AP he knew of at least eight fellow academics languishing in Russian prisons, including physicist Valentin Danilov, who is serving a 14-year-sentence for working with allegedly sensitive information that his defenders argue has long been in the public domain.
That part does sound pretty crappy though...again, attorney time...
"I would be glad if I sat next to them on the plane to Vienna," Sutyagin said, describing the flight that flew him from Moscow to freedom on July 9.
Sutyagin, 45, was one of four Russians released in a dramatic exchange that followed the arrest of 10 deep-cover Russian agents operating in the United States.
But his was not the classic case of spy-for-spy. Russia watchers have described his 1999 conviction on charges of treason as a part of campaign by the Kremlin to intimidate the nation's academics, and Sutyagin's case has been championed by Russian and international human rights campaigners. Sutyagin himself has long insisted on his innocence.
Well, I'm kind of confused here, was he coerced into a confession when he was innocent or something?
But he said he also had in mind the prisoners — in both in the U.S. and in Russia — whose fate hung on his move. He said he did not want to put other families through that just to preserve his own honor.
Well it's a bit confusing or a write, but then, upon reading it on Yahoo...interesting though...