Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov Imprisoned for assassinating a former Chechen insurgent commander in Berlin in 2019.
German authorities spokesman Steffen Hebestreit stated Berlin determined to ship him again to Russia out of its accountability to German residents and its solidarity with the US.
“This was not a straightforward determination,” he stated in a press release.
He acknowledged that “it’s within the public curiosity to impose custodial sentences on convicted criminals”.
But it surely should be linked to “the liberty, welfare and, in some instances, the lives of harmless folks detained in Russia,” he stated. “Family and friends,” Herbestreit stated. He added that a type of launched was a German citizen on loss of life row in Belarus.
“Our hearts exit to all these nonetheless imprisoned in Russia who expressed their views and advised the reality about Putin’s aggressive conflict in Ukraine,” Herbestreit stated.
He referred to as on “the leaders of Russia and Belarus to launch all unjustly imprisoned political prisoners”.
