WARSAW, 27 February 2015 – Two representatives from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights attended a court hearing on 25 February related to the case of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian Air Force pilot and Member of Parliament charged with complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists near Luhansk, Ukraine, in June 2014. At the hearing, the Moscow City Court reaffirmed that Savchenko should remain in pre-trial detention until 13 May 2015. Michael Georg Link, Director of ODIHR, today reiterated the importance of OSCE commitments on fair-trial rights. “In Moscow in 1991, OSCE participating States agreed to …read more
Source: OSCE (EU)