ALDE Party President condemns Nadia Savchenko's prosecution - Main contents
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament condemns the breach of international law in the case of Ukrainian pilot, MP and member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Nadia Savchenko, who faces spending 23 years in prison following a Russia's prosecutor request in her case.
Nadia Savchenko was charged with complicity in the death of two Russian journalists, after being abducted by Russia-backed militants in Donbas last summer and then being illegally transferred to Russia.
Reacting to the prosecutor’s request in Savchenko’s case, ALDE Party President and ALDE Group's spokesman on Russia and Ukraine, Hans van Baalen MEP, stated:"It is a shameful and a blatant breach of international law that Nadia Savchenko was abducted in her own country by illegal Russian forces and is now illegally prosecuted in a political process. Nadia Savchenko has to be released and repatriated to Ukraine as soon as possible. If not, the EU should consider political and economic sanctions in order to make Russia understand that the international community cannot accept this Soviet style behaviour."