Amnesty International has urged the Russian authorities to set free and return home Ukrainian female pilot Nadia Savchenko and film director Oleh Sentsov, Europe and Central Asia Program Director at Amnesty International John Dalhuisen said at a news conference in the central office of Interfax on Sept. 10.
He said that Amnesty International said that these people have been illegally taken from Ukrainian territory, detained and put into custody under trumped-up charges.
On Sept. 8, Ukrainian Premier Arseniy Yatsenyuk during the meeting with Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty asked him to facilitate the return home of his Ukrainian compatriots.
As reported, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the detention in the Republic of Crimea of members of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalistic Right Sector suspected of plotting to stage acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks in several cities of the peninsula, Oleh Sentsov was among the suspects.
The Russian Investigative Committee claimed that Nadia Savchenko had crossed the border without documents under the guise of a refugee and was detained later for identification, after which it turned out that she was suspected of playing some role in the killing of Russian TV journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Luhansk. On July 9, Russia indicted her for complicity in murder.
