The appeal was filed after the Israeli young woman was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison • The main claim: Issachar did not escape drugs as she did not intend to visit the country at all. • It is also alleged that she did not have access to drugs, found in a suitcase in the plane's stomach.
Naama Issachar, protesters for her release and Russian President Putin // Photo: Gideon Markovich, AFP
Russian lawyers for Naama Issachar, the Israeli young woman being held in the Russian prison, filed Thursday's appeal in Moscow District Court.
The main argument in the written appeal is that since Vishar did not intend to cross the Russian border at all, it cannot be convicted of drug smuggling into the country. It was also alleged that since she had no access to drugs found in her luggage, she may not have planned to cross them.
Protest in front of the Russian consulate in New York for the release of Naama Issachar // Photo courtesy of the family
"Before her arrest, Mrs. Issachar did not cross, did not intend and was not supposed to cross the Russian customs border and did not attempt to cross the border customs union at the Shermatibu airport, so that illegal smuggling of illegal material cannot be blamed," the appeal states.
The appeal also states that: "Throughout the proceedings prior to her trial and investigation, Mrs. Issachar did not receive reliable and complete instructions or explanations as to what was going on in her case, all for the nature of her suspicions, her legal rights and the legal implications of her legal protection."
The appeal also states that "the court erred in relation to the findings mentioned in the investigation and the significance of the law, inter alia in deciding that, although Ms. Issachar had no access to put in her honor, she still violated the law."
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"Putin does not want to give presents to Netanyahu"
Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to release the Israeli convicted of smuggling drugs into Russia, in order not to give "a gift" to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This was reported last month on the "Moscow-Meadow" radio station.
As is well known, Issachar was convicted a month later and sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for smuggling 9.5 grams of cannabis. The Bloomberg Agency, which relied on two well-known sources in the Kremlin issue, noted that Putin himself will decide on the fate of the girl, but only after Israel emerges from the political plunder in which it is located.
Bloomberg added that Putin does not intend to give a "gift" to Netanyahu who is in a politically unstable situation. The Russian president wants to keep this precious card in his hands at this time.