She was released on bail after two months but was rearrested in January after posting a video on YouTube describing how prison guards mistreated her physically while she was in jail.
In August Lukashenko – Europe's last dictator in the words of former US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice – suggested Sannikov would soon be rearrested.
Recidivism rates have not changed for decades, but there are far more ex-convicts: roughly two-thirds of the ex-cons are likely to be rearrested within three years, and 40% will probably go back behind bars.This debate will rumble on not least because it is impossible to prove the deterrent effect of tougher sentences.
In about a tenth of these cases, the match was with someone who was on the database despite not having a conviction.Home Office boffins justify the six-year retention of innocents' DNA with research showing that people who are let off after an arrest are more likely than the general public to be rearrested.
In July Mr Haradinaj was rearrested, on the orders of the UN's war-crimes tribunal in The Hague, for war crimes of which he had been acquitted in 2008.
Two-thirds of ex-prisoners are rearrested within three years.
Mr Haradinaj was acquitted of war crimes by the UN's war crimes tribunal in 2008, but yesterday was rearrested because the appeals chamber found his trial to have been marred by witness intimidation.
He was released in 1993, but rearrested six months later and charged with attempting to overthrow the government.
They note that he recently ordered the release from prison of Maulana Azam Tariq, the spiritual leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of the Companions of the Prophet), a radical Sunni group thought to be behind many of the anti-Shia attacks.The maulana, who has since been rearrested, denies any role in the violence and has gone on television to plead for harmony.
A study of nearly 10,000 male sex offenders in 15 American states found that 5% were rearrested for a sex crime within three years.
New York offenders, though similar in profile to their New Jersey counterparts when the study began, turned out worse later on: they were more likely to be rearrested, and these rearrests came sooner.Back at the Justice Department, Mr Markus knows all about this research; but he remains undaunted.
