MOSCOW. May 12 (Interfax) - The verdict by a German court against Nazi criminal Ivan Demyanyuk - a five-year sentence - is too soft, Head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov has said.
"This is a surprisingly soft verdict. I know that there is no statute of limitations on these crimes. Personally, I cannot see any penalty other than life imprisonment," Fedotov told Interfax on Thursday.
"Of course, to judge about the degree of culpability, one has to know all the case files. But if it has been proved that Demyanyuk was involved in Nazi atrocities at concentration camps, it seems to me the court verdict is unjustifiably liberal," Fedotov said.
The German court sentenced Nazi criminal Ivan (John) Demyanyuk to five years in prison on Thursday.
He was found guilty of involvement in mass executions of the inmates of the Nazi Sobibor extermination camp in Poland.
Demyanyuk denied the charge and referred to himself as a victim of Nazism.