"The talk is about a complaint in the Trepashkin case of illegally keeping of weapons. We believe he was arrested illegally, and inhumane methods were used on him," Yelena Liptzer said, adding that a complaint on the main case dealing with divulging state secrets has not been considered yet.
She said the European court raised a number of questions with the Russian government, but has not yet received a reply.
A military court in Moscow sentenced Trepashkin to four years in jail 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.
In April 2005, another court ruled that Trepashkin was guilty of illegally keeping weapons, and extended the sentence to five years, but the charge was later dismissed.
Trepashkin is currently serving his sentence at a penal colony in Nizhny Tagil, in the Sverdlovsk Region.
