Human rights attorneys who represented the rock band Pussy Riot last May arrive in Washington this week to plead with the United States to aid another female detained by Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation.
Attorneys Mark Feygin and Nikolay Polozov represent Nadezhda Savchenko, a 33-year-old pilot from Ukraine who now sits as prisoner in Russian captivity after she was detained during Russian military operations in the war between the two countries.
Russian officials claim she was responsible for providing crucial information for a shelling that led to the death of a Russian TV news crew. However, her attorneys and media reports have said …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
