Moscow - Russian weapons control researcher Igor Sutiagin was found guilty by a Moscow court on Monday of spying for the United States, Russian news agencies reported.
"The jury agreed unanimously that he was guilty," they quoted lawyer Boris Kuznetsov as saying as he left the closed-door hearing.
In January four international rights groups protested to the Council of Europe that Sutiagin, a researcher at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Science, was "the target of politically-motivated treason charges" and was being denied the right to a fair trial.
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