An appeals court in Moscow today refused to bring forward the trial date of the Ukrainian MP Nadiya Savchenko, who has been on hunger strike for over 70 days. The ruling could mean that Savchenko will die in pretrial detention, and her campaigners have slammed the decision as effectively being a “death sentence”.
Russia charged Savchenko, 33, with involvement in a mortar attack that killed two Russian journalists last summer, in the ongoing conflict between pro-Russian separatists and forces loyal to Kiev in eastern Ukraine. The former military pilot was captured by pro-Russian forces last June after joining a volunteer battalion. …read more
Source: Newsweek
