MOSCOW, March 9 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian court has ruled to transfer former security service officer Mikhail Trepashkin, serving a term for divulging state secrets, to a prison colony with a stricter regime.
Trepashkin's lawyer, Elena Liptzer, said the ruling will be appealed.
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 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.
The colony administration has called for a toughening of his prison regime due to alleged breaches of internal regulations by Trepashkin.
