Savchenko's defense team plans to file complaint with ECHR jointly with British lawyer
MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - Lawyer Mark Feygin, plans together with his British colleague, Ben Emmerson, to lodge a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko.
"I also want to say that I am holding talks with my British colleague, Ben Emmerson, to jointly file a complaint with the ECHR over the Savchenko case," the lawyer wrote on his Twitter microblog.
On March 22, 2016, the Donetsk Court of the Rostov region found Ukrainian servicewoman, Nadiya Savchenko, guilty of killing Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin by a group of people by a previous concert on hatred and enmity motives, and sentenced her to 22 years in a penal colony. The court also found her guilty of attempted murder and illegally crossing the Russian border.
The sentence took effect on April 5. The next day, Savchenko began a dry hunger strike, demanding her immediate return to her homeland.
Savchenko decided to stop her hunger strike after a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.