MOSCOW: Russia on Friday dropped treason charges against a mother of seven, whose arrest for allegedly informing Ukraine about Russian troop movements sparked an outcry in the country, her lawyer said.
“Good news has come: the criminal case against Svetlana Davydova has been dropped due to the absence of a crime,” her lawyer Ivan Pavlov wrote on Facebook.
Davydova, 36, who is bringing up seven children in a small town outside Moscow, was arrested in January by uniformed men who burst into her apartment.
She was imprisoned in a high-security jail for two weeks accused of high …read more
Source: theSun