MOSCOW, April 4 (RIA Novosti) - A former security service officer currently serving a jail sentence for divulging state secrets has been on hunger strike for two days, his lawyer said Tuesday.
"[Mikhail] Trepashkin demands that the media as well as the Sverdlovsk Region plenipotentiary on human rights be allowed into his prison cell," Yelena Liptser said.
A military court in Moscow sentenced Trepashkin to four years in jail on May 19, 2004. The court said that while serving with the KGB and later as an officer with its main successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), from 1984 to 1997, Trepashkin had made copies of internal documents and stored them at home.
Trepashkin is currently serving his sentence at penal colony No. 13 in Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk Region.
