Former Russian FSB officer Trepashkin released from prison
30/11/2007 09:49 YEKATERINBURG, November 30 (RIA Novosti) - A former security service officer convicted of divulging state secrets, was released Friday after his four-year prison term expired, a human rights group spokesman said.
"[Mikhail] Trepashkin has been set free. He was released shortly before his official prison term expired, about 6.00 a.m. Moscow time (3.00 a.m. GMT)," the spokesman for the group defending Trepashkin's rights told RIA Novosti.
A military court in Moscow sentenced Trepashkin to four years in jail on May 19, 2004. The court said that while serving with the KGB and later as an officer with its successor organization, the Federal Security Service (FSB), from 1984 to 1997, Trepashkin made copies of internal documents and stored them at home.
Trepashkin served his sentence at penal colony No. 13 in Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk Region.
On July 17, the European Court of Human Rights partially upheld Trepashkin's appeal ordering Russia to pay 3,000 euros compensation, but made no ruling on a second claim related to illegal possession of weapons as Trepashkin had been cleared of this charge and received 70,000 rubles ($2,750) compensation from the Russian state.
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