Medic to be killed in Belarus unless Germany agrees to Putin ally's demands

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Medic to be killed in Belarus unless Germany agrees to Putin ally's demands
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Father-of-one Rico Krieger previously worked as a Red Cross medic.

Rico Krieger, 29, will be executed with a bullet in the back of the head if his sentence is carried out A German citizen faces execution in Belarus after being found guilty of terrorism and mercenary activity in ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’. Detention of foreign nationals on charges often dismissed as dubious has become a theme of diplomacy practiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years.

Less than two years ago, Russia exchanged US basketball player Brittney Griner for arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, who’d been held in an American prison for 12 years. Griner had been spent nearly 10 months locked up on drug charges by the time of her release. It’s not the first time Krasikov’s name has popped up in connection with a possible prisoner swap.

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