Oksana Sebastini, convicted of treason and pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin and freed from a Moscow detention center “Lefortovo”. On Sunday, March 12, reports TASS.
“We will continue the fight to get her acquitted. We hope that justice in this criminal case are not limited to pardon and be acquitted because the only way to correct the series of errors that happened in the case of Oksana,” he told reporters about the detention center Evgeny Smirnov, lawyer, Sebastini.
Smirnov noted that, according to him, the woman appealed to the President asking for clemency. At the same time, the lawyer assumed that, “probably, in the colony she signed the paper”.
Sebastini, convicted of treason in the form of espionage, was pardoned on 7 March. As explained in the Kremlin, the head of state signed the corresponding decree, guided by the principles of humanity. To examine the case, Sebastiai Putin promised in December 2016.
The verdict 46-year-old resident of Sochi were made in the Krasnodar regional court on 3 March 2016. She was found guilty of treason and sentenced to seven years in a General regime colony. The reason for the trial were two TEXT messages sent by the woman in 2008 before the conflict with Georgia. She wrote to his friend in this country, what I saw in Sochi train with military equipment, moving in the direction of Abkhazia. The woman was arrested in January 2015. Her lawyer Ivan Pavlov said that “according to information of bodies of state security of Abkhazia, a friend of Sebastini served at that time in the Georgian special services”, but she didn’t know about it. In addition, he added, “the train with tanks” was seen by many residents of the city.
The act of pardon does not cancel and did not question the court sentence. Under article 85 of the criminal code, the convicted person may be released from further punishment (it may also be reduced or replaced by softer). In addition, the act of pardon can be overturned.