Oslo has denied political asylum to former Russian mixed martial arts fighter Vladislav Datsik, who was detained in Norway after he escaped from a psychiatric ward in St. Petersburg, news agencies reported on Thursday.
Member of the Slavic Union ultranationalist movement, Datsik was arrested on September 21 when he emerged at an immigration office in Oslo seeking asylum.
In 2007, Datsik was arrested after a series of robberies in mobile phone stores in St.Petersburg. Psychiatric examinations concluded, though, that he was mentally ill, and he was exempted from being held responsible for criminal charges.
He was then locked in a high security psychiatric clinic, from where he fled in September 2010.
