Secret Service Threatens Treason Charges Against Troops Declining Syrian Deployment
September 23 2015
A group of Russian soldiers who allegedly refused to deploy secretly to Syria could face charges of treason, according to the lawyer representing them, as cited by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has been interrogating the soldiers, a group of volunteer personnel serving in Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, and threatening to prosecute them on various charges, including high treason, said Ivan Pavlov early this week.
The FSB reportedly...
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