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Sutyagin endured years behind bars as his trial was repeatedly delayed. Knowing his own innocence and believing that justice would triumph in a jury trial, Sutyagin and his family did not seek public support. For the final postponement, the appointed judge was replaced by another with a history of espionage convictions, who proceeded to pick his own new jury. Sutyagin's defense team angrily charged that the new jury included agents of the FSB, Russia's successor to the Soviet KGB, and that the judge further manipulated proceedings by instructing the jury to consider the wrong questions.
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Russians Arms Control Researcher Gets 15 Years
Igor Sutyagin is among the most recent victims in a series of espionage prosecutions of environmentalists, journalists, and sc...
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