Speaking to the media in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Lavrov said US prosecutors were deliberately trying to break Butina.
"I can understand that woman, she is being kept in the harshest conditions, for many many months now she has been subjected to a kind of torture: they would make her go for walks at night, forcibly interrupting her sleep, place her in single confinement, and many other things," Lavrov said.
I have reasons to believe the conditions that have been created for her are intended to break her will and make her confess to something she likely didn't do.Unnecessarily harsh treatment continued as recently as on Thursday, after Butina's plea deal. She was being kept in conditions "normally reserved for dangerous repeat offenders," Lavrov said.
Comment: And many others agree with that assessment:
Tormented into a guilty plea? Experts denounce US "miscarriage of justice" in Butina case
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