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 resolution,” he mentioned in a press release.
He acknowledged there was a “public curiosity in implementing a jail sentence on a convicted legal”.
However this needed to be set in opposition to the “freedom, welfare and in some instances the lives of harmless individuals detained in Russia”, he mentioned.”We hope that each one these freed right now will get well from their bodily and psychological ordeals with the assist of their family and friends,” mentioned Hebestreit.A kind of freed was a German citizen who had been on loss of life 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 struggle of aggression in Ukraine,” Hebestreit mentioned.
He referred to as on “the Russian and Belarussian management to launch all unjustly imprisoned political detainees”.
