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Putin has pardoned an Israeli woman sentenced to 7,5 years in Russia for hash smuggling

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning Israeli Naama Issachar, who was sentenced in Russia to 7,5 years in prison for 9,6 grams of hashish, which were found in the Sheremetyevo transit zone. Putin promised Issachar’s mother last week that “everything will be fine,” writes Air force.

Putin signed a petition to pardon the Israeli woman, the Kremlin reported. The text of the decree states that the Russian President acts “guided by the principles of humanity.” The decree comes into force from the date of its signing.

“Sharing the joy of close relatives and thousands of people who followed and worried about Naama’s fate, it is difficult to get rid of the peculiar legal aftertaste of her release, which can be expressed in the phrase: everything could have been simpler,” lawyer Valery Zinchenko from the Bar Association told the BBC Pen & Paper, which represents the girl's interests.

Last week, on January 23, Putin, during a visit to Israel, met with Issachar’s mother, who last November asked him to pardon her daughter. He promised her that “everything will be fine.”

The next day, the Kremlin announced that the process was stalled due to Issakhar’s reluctance to write a petition for clemency. And on Sunday, January 26, the lawyers of the 26-year-old Israeli woman said that the convicted drug smuggler had nevertheless filed a petition for clemency and speedy release from the colony.

“We discussed with Naama Issachar the statement of the Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov that her pardon requires her personal appeal to the President. As a result of our discussion, Naama decided to appeal to the president,” the defense statement said.

The convicted mother confirmed that her daughter wrote a petition for clemency. This week, she flew to Russia and arrived in a colony near Moscow, where her daughter is serving her sentence.

On January 27, the Moscow Oblast Clemency Commission recommended that the petition be granted, and Governor Andrei Vorobyov signed the recommendation.

By the arrival of Netanyahu

Israeli media reported earlier that Israel and Russia agreed on the main issues related to the expected pardon of Issahar and are working on the details of her release.

This issue was raised during a telephone conversation between President Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They called up twice on December 26 and January 16, and on January 28 it became known that Netanyahu would go to Russia to discuss with Putin a plan for a Middle East settlement proposed by US President Donald Trump.

After publishing the pardon decree, Netanyahu thanked “his friend” Putin. The mother of the pardoned Israeli woman also thanked the Russian president for his sympathy.

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“It is expected that Issachar will leave Russia with his mother on board the Israeli Prime Minister on Thursday, January 30,” an informed source told Interfax. The Jerusalem Post also reported that Netanyahu may take Issachar from Russia to his homeland after a meeting with Putin.

“There was no deal with Russia. The release of Naama is a gesture of goodwill by President Putin towards the United States,” the newspaper’s source said, recalling that Issachar has both Israeli and American citizenship.

The Maariv newspaper, citing a document in its possession, wrote that the Israeli authorities decided to transfer to Russia the rights over the Alexander Metochion in Jerusalem - a request from the Russian authorities had been under consideration by the Israeli Ministry of Justice for several years.

Moscow denied that the issues of pardon and the courtyard could be connected. Putin’s assistant Yuri Ushakov said: “You can link whatever you want, but you still don’t know what the decision will be regarding the girl.”

The Case of Naama Issahar

Issakhar, 26, was detained last April in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, where she made a transfer on a flight from Delhi to Tel Aviv. In the luggage of the girl found 9,6 grams of hashish.

The Israeli woman was accused of possession (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and smuggling of drugs in a significant amount (Clause “c”, Part 2 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and was taken into custody. In October 2019, the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region found Issachar guilty and sentenced her to 7,5 years in prison.

On December 19, the Moscow Regional Court recognized the verdict as legal, despite the defense's argument that Issakhar did not understand much of his charge and what was happening at the first trial due to poor translation.

“The conclusions of the courts about the evidence of drug smuggling by Naama did not stand up to any legal criticism,” says lawyer Zinchenko. “The paradox is that the act of pardon by the president does not solve the issue of serious reputational losses to the system after the Naama case. But everything could really be simpler - legally and humanly. The court had plenty of defense arguments in this case.”

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Israeli media wrote that Moscow was ready to hand over Issachar to the Israeli authorities in exchange for hacker Alexei Burkov, detained in December 2015 at Tel Aviv airport at the request of the United States.

The Israeli woman’s relatives even petitioned the court to cancel the Russian’s extradition to the United States, calling Issachar a “diplomatic hostage.” However, in November 2019, the Israeli authorities handed Burkov over to the Americans.

The Bloomberg news agency, citing sources familiar with the Kremlin’s discussion of Issakhar’s case, wrote that Putin did not want to free the Israeli woman so as not to raise Netanyahu’s rating, which was expected in early March for the third extraordinary parliamentary election in a year.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • October 11, 2019 court in Russia sentenced Israeli and US citizen Naamu Issahar by 7,5 years in prison on charges of drug smuggling. Issakhar was detained on April 9 at Sheremetyevo Airport, where she made a transfer on the road from Delhi to Tel Aviv. In the baggage, Israeli women found 9,6 grams of hash. Since April Issakhar was in jail.
  • October 14, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to pardon the Israeli woman Naam Issahar, who was sentenced by a court in Moscow to seven and a half years in prison on charges of smuggling and possession of drugs.
  • Naama’s mother Issakhar flew to Russia to support her daughter during the trial, remained after the verdict, and is seeking meetings with Naama in jail. On the eve of Jaffa, she managed to see her daughter and pass on her sweets. Woman also gave an interviewtalking about the daughter and her case.
  • The Jerusalem Post reported that Moscow suggested Israel will exchange Naama Issahar for Russian citizen Alexei Burkov, who was arrested at Tel Aviv Airport in 2015 at the request of the United States. Washington made a request for the extradition of the Russian. In the States, he is suspected of cybercrime against US citizens.

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