{"id":780,"date":"2020-12-02T02:54:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=130439"},"modified":"2020-12-02T02:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:54:53","slug":"european-rights-court-finds-russia-denied-physicist-fair-trial-in-treason-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/02\/european-rights-court-finds-russia-denied-physicist-fair-trial-in-treason-case\/","title":{"rendered":"European Rights Court Finds Russia Denied Physicist Fair Trial In Treason Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/5EF1F9AD-0A72-45CC-AFAC-66CDE192DE77_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on December 1 ruled Russia violated a top physicist\u2019s right to a fair trial in a 2014 trail on treason and fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>Valentin Danilov, the former director of the thermo-physics center at Krasnoyarsk State University, was arrested in 2001 on claims he transferred secret information to China and embezzled funds.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, a jury acquitted Danilov of all charges, but a year later the Russian Supreme Court overturned the acquittal and sent the case back for another trial.<\/p>\n<p>The new jury found Danilov guilty and he was ultimately sentenced to 13 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>When he was paroled in 2012, Danilov vowed to clear his name.<\/p>\n<p>In his appeal to the ECHR, Danilov, now 72, argued he was not allowed to cross-examine experts whose testimony was used against him, nor to present his own expert defense.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed the jury was biased, since four of the twelve members had a state security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court agreed with our arguments that it is doubtful that among the jurors who were selected by random sampling four had a security clearance,\u201d Danilov\u2019s lawyer, Anna Stavitskaya, told MBH Media.<\/p>\n<p>The ECHR sided with Danilov in his arguments, ordering Russia to pay 21,000 euros ($25,300) for having infringed on his right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With reporting by AFP and Current Time.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/02\/european-rights-court-finds-russia-denied-physicist-fair-trial-in-treason-case\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on December 1 ruled Russia violated a top physicist\u2019s right to a fair trial in a 2014 trail on treason and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}