On June 6, the court will consider the cassation of Mikhail Trepashkin's defence on custody toughening

On June 6, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court will consider the cassation appeal against the decision of the Tagilstroj District Court of the city of Nizhni Tagil of March 9, 2007, according to which the custody regime for Mikhail Trepashkin, a political prisoner serving his term at the Correction Colony (IK-13), was toughened (transfer from settlement-colony into general regime colony).

Placement of heavily sick former FSB officer into a confined cell can tell negatively on his health, the defence asserts.

More than a year ago, on March 15, 2006, the same Sverdlovsk Regional Court refused to provide the necessary hospitalization to inmate Mikhail Trepashkin.

"Mikhail Trepashkin is persecuted by the authorities of Russia on political grounds, which has been acknowledged by multiple globally-recognized international organizations, the authoritative International Amnesty among them," runs the statement of the Committee "For Human Rights."

The "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that Mikhail Trepashkin was sentenced by the Moscow Regional Military Court on May 19, 2004, for disclosure of state secrets. He was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment with serving the term in a settlement colony.

We remind you that after quitting the security service, Mr. Trepashkin got engaged into advocacy practice and work at the Public Commission for Investigating Terror Acts in apartment houses in Moscow in 1999. The result of the work was the book by Yury Felshtinskiy and Alexander Litvinenko "FSB Blows Up Russia."