美國，04-18-2000 - 環境和人權行動者正在歡欣鼓舞，因為昨日俄羅斯最高法院支持低一級的法院對反核行動者，亞歷山大˙尼基丁(Alexander Nikitin)的無罪判決﹔他被控告在為一個挪威環境團體工作時，洩露國家機密。原為海軍艦長的尼基丁，因為撰寫有關俄國的核子潛艇事故，及1965年到1989年間在北極海拋棄核廢料的報導，而在1996年遭到逮捕。他被監禁了十個月後，以限制出境的條件暫時獲釋。最高法院批評起訴者意圖以尼基丁初次被捕時還尚未立法的保密法來控告他。環境和人權團體警告說，俄羅斯將繼續起訴其他綠色激進者。

原文詳見：路透社記者Planet Ark，04.18.00
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=6405

原文詳見：Toronto Globe and Mail記者Geoffrey York, 04.18.00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/International/20000418/UNIKIN.html 

版權歸屬  Earth Day Network，環境信託協會 (黃子晏　譯，梁明煌審校)

中英對照譯稿請見http://news.ngo.org.tw/2000/04/0420/ed00042002.htm

 Enviros and human rights activists are celebrating after Russia's Supreme Court yesterday upheld a lower court's acquittal of anti-nuclear activist Alexander Nikitin, who had been accused of revealing state secrets while working with a Norwegian environmental group. Nikitin, a former navy captain, was arrested in 1996 for writing a report about Soviet nuclear submarine accidents and the dumping of nuclear waste in the Arctic Sea　from 1965 to 1989. He was imprisoned for 10 months, then released on condition that he not leave the country. The Supreme Court criticized prosecutors for trying to convict Nikitin on the basis of secret laws that did not even exist when he was first arrested. Enviros and human rights groups warn that Russia is continuing to persecute other green activists.

Straight to the source: Planet Ark, Reuters, 04.18.00
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=6405

straight to the source: Toronto Globe and Mail, Geoffrey York, 04.18.00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/International/20000418/UNIKIN.html