Strasbourg Court Rejects Sutyagin’s Spy Trial

The European Court of Human Rights handed a landmark victory to a former arms control researcher freed in a U.S. spy swap last year, ruling that he was detained for too long and denied a fair trial in 2004. The court also ordered the Russian government to pay the former researcher, Igor Sutyagin, damages of 20,000 euros ($29,600). The decision, published on the court’s web site Tuesday, was welcomed […]