[free-sklyarov] Is sklyarov possibly being held hostage for the release of John Tobin?

[alfee cube]

this crossed my mind, also, but i think the DMCA
agenda is independent of tobin

--- Bill Chess <chess at ncu2.net> wrote:
> I sent the following message before I was registered
> and so it probably
> didn't get posted. Please forgive if it is a
> duplicate.
> 
> Could it be that sklyarov is actually being held
> hostage for the release of
> the American John Tobin, held by Russian athorities?
> If so, maybe when Tobin
> gets back to the States- suddenly they will find
> that they do not have a
> case against Sklyarov?
> 
> Or maybe he is hostage against some other American
> the Russians are
> retaining?
> 
> Quote:
> ROSSOSH, Russia, Aug. 3 -  American Fulbright
> scholar John Tobin was
> released Friday from a Russian prison after serving
> half of a one-year drug
> sentence, ending a high-profile case that had
> strained U.S.-Russia
> relations. Throughout his trial and imprisonment,
> the Connecticut native
> maintained that the charges against him stemmed from
> an attempt by the
> Russian intelligence services to recruit him as a
> spy.
> 
> (It will be more than a week before Tobin will
> actually leave Russia)
> 
> 
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