Russia has dropped treason charges against an activist accused of phoning the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow last year to warn that Russian solders might be heading to eastern Ukraine, her lawyer said on Friday.
Svetlana Davydova was arrested at her home west of Moscow in January on suspicion of making the call after overhearing a soldier’s conversation about troops from a nearby military base being sent to Ukraine.
A mother of seven, Davydova was released from pre-trial detention in February after nearly 20,000 people signed a petition to free her. Davydova’s lawyer Ivan Pavlov said prosecutors had dropped the charges, which could …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
