• Krasnoyarsk region  Political Prisoners  Valentin Danilov  Public Prosecutor’s Office  Human rights defenders

On 13 November 2012, the Soviet district court in the city of Krasnoyarsk granted a petition for parole by Professor of Physics Valentin Danilov who had previously been sentenced to 13 years in prison for “treason and espionage” on charges brought by the regional branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB). News of the decision to grant Danilov parole was broken by the Interfax news agency. [Read more]