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Concern: Naama Issachar will be taken to Siberia prison Israel today

2019-12-24T16:32:04.519Z


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The young woman convicted of smuggling drugs has been transferred to the status of a regular prisoner so she can be transferred to a remote prison • Yaffe Issachar: "Naama is deeply drawn to the nightmare scenario"

  • Naama Issachar on appeal last week // Photo: AFP

Naama Issachar's family fears that, following her appeal, she will be sentenced to continue her prison sentence from Moscow to a remote prison in Russia. The young woman, who has been convicted of smuggling drugs, may even be transferred to a Siberian prison, so her frequency of visits will decrease significantly.

Naama's mother, Yaffe, wrote today: "This morning I met Naama in prison for the first time since the trial. The meeting was charged, Naama very disturbed. Ten days after sentencing, she is scheduled to have an inmate in a regular prison and it can be anywhere in Russia, she Looking forward to coming home and she feels it is only moving away as she is sucked deeper into this nightmare scenario.

"I told her she was a queen, she said she was proud of everything that went out of her mouth without stammering at all, that she really trained a lot and it was important to make her voice clear, even though everything there at the end turned out to be one big show.

"She told me that while she was inside the glass booth and her eyes intersected with everyone in the courtroom, foreign reporters, Israeli journalists, she felt their love. They smiled at her with warm, enlightening eyes and it provided her little comfort for the difficult moments of the aftermath. She concluded that she was Wanting to appeal to a higher court, she won't believe this is her sentence, and rightly so.

"We will not stop fighting for her release, nor will she. There is certainly endless power in it that amazes me even, I do not know where it draws it. I so want to believe that soon it will be over and she will be home with me again," concluded Yishachar.

Last week, Moscow District Court dismissed Issachar's appeal, which was convicted of drug smuggling. Naama claimed that her previous lawyers had misled her and that the documents had not been translated made her admit things she had not done. Defense attorneys claimed that her rights were blatantly violated as they did not provide her with a proper translation from Russian. They also alleged that the drugs were taken in the trunk and that Naama did not carry them physically. Because of this, the court did not properly evaluate the evidence at the time of the verdict.

Issachar's defense counsel asked the court to overturn the ruling, and reconsider a decision following a special circumstance to which Naama was subjected. The defense supported the arguments read by the judge in accordance with the circumstances. "The judgment given in Issachar's case is based on her admission of wrongful guilt. There is no evidence to prove elements of crime."

Source: israelhayom

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