Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov was jailed for assassinating a former Chechen insurgent commander in Berlin in 2019.
German authorities spokesman Steffen Hebestreit mentioned the choice to ship him again to Russia had been knowledgeable by Berlin’s obligation in the direction of German residents and solidarity with the US.
“This was not a straightforward choice,” he mentioned in a press release.
He acknowledged there was a “public curiosity in imposing a jail sentence on a convicted prison”.
However this needed to be set towards the “freedom, welfare and in some circumstances the lives of harmless individuals detained in Russia”, he mentioned.”We hope that every one these freed at present will recuperate from their bodily and psychological ordeals with the help of their family and friends,” mentioned Hebestreit.A kind of freed was a German citizen who had been on dying row in Belarus, he added.
“Our ideas are with all those that are nonetheless imprisoned in Russia for expressing their opinions and for telling the reality about Putin’s conflict of aggression in Ukraine,” Hebestreit mentioned.
He known as on “the Russian and Belarussian management to launch all unjustly imprisoned political detainees”.
