Contents tagged with abduction

  • Court says Video Footage of Nadiya Savchenko's Arrest is Inadmissible Evidence

    The Donetsk City Court in the Rostov region rejected a petition from the lawyers of the Ukrainian servicewoman, Nadiya Savchenko, requesting the admission of a video of the defendant's arrest in the Luhansk region of Ukraine in the summer of 2014. The judge explained his decision indicating that the admission of the video "doesn't mean that the defense will acquire anything," according to Anton Naumlyuk a correspondent for Radio Svoboda.

    Earlier Savchenko’s lawyers presented evidence that the …