Moscow - Lawyers and human rights groups prepared yesterday to appeal to Russia's Supreme Court to throw out treason and spying charges against a former naval captain, saying the security services had no evidence.
The trial of Mr Alexander Nikitin, charged after he wrote in a report for a foreign environmental group that the navy had dumped nuclear waste in the Arctic Sea, was suspended last year to give the prosecution more time to produce evidence. The court will hear Mr Nikitin's case in Moscow today.
