Nadiya Savchenko, the former military Ukrainian pilot captured by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, spent nearly two years in a Russian prison before being swapped for two captured Russian servicemen in May.
Now a member of Ukraine’s parliament, she was in Strasbourg, France, this week as her country’s delegate to a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
In a speech on Monday to the European human rights body, Savchenko described herself as having been “kidnapped” in “a breach of human rights” that should be reviewed by the European Court of Human Rights. She called attention …read more
Source: Voice of America
