According to TASS, former Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadezhda Savchenko has gone on a "dry" hunger strike due to being unable to make her last plea in the Donetsk city court (in southern Russia) where her case is reviewed, her lawyer Nikolai Polozov reported.
According to TASS, former Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadezhda Savchenko has gone on a "dry" hunger strike due to being unable to make her last plea in the Donetsk city court (in southern Russia) where her case is reviewed, her lawyer Nikolai Polozov reported.
Savchenko was supposed to give her final statement in the trial on March 3, which had been declared to be the last day of court hearings on her case. However, the court session was closed immediately after her attorneys finished their statements to court.
"The court suddenly announced it had postponed its session until March 9 preventing Savchenko from making her last plea. She said she had begun a ‘dry’ hunger strike," the lawyer wrote on his Twitter page.
Kyiv Post writes that another of Savchenko’s attorneys, Mark Feygin, said that “the obvious innocence of Savchenko was proved long ago,” and the fact that the court postponed her final statement until March 9 just proved once again that the final ruling on her case won’t be made in the Donetsk court, but rather “in those places where such a decision requires time” - meaning among Russia’s leaders.
The next hearing of the trial is scheduled for March 9.
