MOSCOW, September 21 - RAPSI. The Supreme Court will reconsider on September 26 the case against scientist Igor Sutyagin, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for espionage and released in a swap agreement with the United States, his attorney Anna Stavitskaya told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI/rapsinews.com) on Friday.

"The Supreme Court will reconsider the case in view of the new circumstances that have come to light - the European Court of Human Rights' decision in the 'Sutyagin vs. Russia' case," she said.

The court sided with Sutyagin in his lawsuit against the Russian authorities and ruled in May that he should be paid 20,000 euro for violations and moral damage.

Sutyagin appealed to the court in July 2002. Six years later, in July 2008, the court accepted his appeal to consider whether the permissible pretrial detention period had been exceeded without good reason, complaints that his trial lacked independence and impartiality, and possible violations of articles 7 (no punishment without law) and 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Sutyagin initially sought 300,000 euro in indemnity for moral anguish.

The Strasbourg court found that various articles of the convention had been violated during the Russian court's investigation against Sutyagin.

The Russian Constitutional Court said a domestic court will now reconsider the decision and bring it into line with the position of the European court.

"My client submitted a written request not to reconsider his case. Sutyagin has said that he is satisfied with the Strasbourg court's decision, but he does not trust the Russian judicial system, which is why he does not want his case to be reconsidered," Stavitskaya said.

Sutyagin, who headed a military and technical economic policy department at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of the United States and Canada, was charged with divulging state secrets to the British consulting company Alternative Futures. According to the Federal Security Service, the company served as a cover for the U.S. intelligence and his work had nothing to do with scientific research.

Sutyagin was found guilty of state treason and sentenced to 15 years in prison on April 7, 2004.

Alongside three other individuals sentenced to prison for espionage, Sutyagin was traded for 10 individuals arrested in the United States on charges of spying for Russia in June 2010. He currently lives in London.