The Commissioner of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Human Rights, Democracy and Supreme Law, Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, Grigory Lukyantsev said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the number of Russians in foreign penitentiary institutions with a different procedural status exceeds 9 thousand.
“The total number of Russian citizens, which are contained in the penitentiary institutions abroad with various procedural status, that is, those whose legal status is limited due to the fact that they are either accused or suspected of committing crimes or against them has already been convicted The verdict of the competent judicial authority of the relevant state, this data is constantly updated by us. As of August 12 of this year, the total number was 9218 people. Of these, the suspects and accused of committing crimes are 4371 and 1895 people. Regarding 2952 people have already been made Sentences by the competent national courts of foreign states, “said the diplomat.
he clarified that the figures given are approximate, since in a number of states there are strict restrictions on such issues of protecting personal data, so they cannot disclose this data. Lukyantsev added that in some countries there are constraints of a political nature, as well as increasingly cases when compatriots themselves prefer not to tell that they were in prison abroad.
Diplomat announced an informal rating of countries in which there is the largest number of Russians under restrictions of different kinds due to their procedural status: this is the USA, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Estonia, France and Germany.
Earlier it was reported that British David Smith, whom he suspected of espionage in favor of Russia, threatens to 10 years in prison.