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Russia demands the ?immediate and unconditional release of scientist Andrei Zamyatnin,? arrested in Sweden suspicion of espionage, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told the ITAR-TASS news agency Friday.
?The persistent lack of humane action on the part of the Swedish authorities, which is undermining relations between the two countries and arousing the indignation of the Russian public, is a cause for extreme concern,? he said. ?Such a situation hardly fits the image of Sweden which exists in Russian public opinion,? Kamynin said.
He also said that the Russian embassy in Stockholm was ?maintaining regular contact with the detained Russian national and doing its best to help him deal with the injustice being committed against him?.
Earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry called on the Swedish Ambassador to Russia Johan Molander to request Zamyatnin?s release.
Sources in the Swedish Foreign Ministry said shortly after his arrest that the Russian national was detained on suspicion of espionage, on February 15 in Uppsala, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) north of Stockholm, where he worked as a visiting researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
The Swedish investigators claimed that the researcher had been engaged in ?active undermining work? for about a year and ?had undermined the country?s security by his criminal activities?. Officials declined to say what kind of information Zamyatnin was selling. Neither did they disclose what country he was accused of working for.
?The persistent lack of humane action on the part of the Swedish authorities, which is undermining relations between the two countries and arousing the indignation of the Russian public, is a cause for extreme concern,? he said. ?Such a situation hardly fits the image of Sweden which exists in Russian public opinion,? Kamynin said.
He also said that the Russian embassy in Stockholm was ?maintaining regular contact with the detained Russian national and doing its best to help him deal with the injustice being committed against him?.
Earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry called on the Swedish Ambassador to Russia Johan Molander to request Zamyatnin?s release.
Sources in the Swedish Foreign Ministry said shortly after his arrest that the Russian national was detained on suspicion of espionage, on February 15 in Uppsala, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) north of Stockholm, where he worked as a visiting researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
The Swedish investigators claimed that the researcher had been engaged in ?active undermining work? for about a year and ?had undermined the country?s security by his criminal activities?. Officials declined to say what kind of information Zamyatnin was selling. Neither did they disclose what country he was accused of working for.
