Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Russian Trial of Ukraine's Pilot Reflects Tangled Conflict

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A court in southwestern Russia has adjourned a preliminary hearing against captured Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to decide on her lawyers' request to move the trial to Moscow. Prosecutors accuse the Ukrainian woman of causing the deaths of two Russian journalists in east Ukraine last year. They allege she acted as an aerial spotter to help Ukrainian ground forces target the journalists. Savchenko’s lawyers and critics say Russian authorities are staging a political trial...

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