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Halya Coynash: New charge against Savchenko dismissed as ‘technical mistake’

By Halya Coynash.
Ukrainian airforce officer Nadezhda (Nadia) Savchenko reacts inside a defendants' cage as she attends a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow on March 26, 2015.
Photo by AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV

Moscow's Basmanny Court has agreed to call a further charge in the indictment against Nadiya Savchenko, one that carries a 20-year prison sentence, a "technical mistake". It found no problem with the investigators' merging of two other charges against the Ukrainian pilot, one of which was announced the day after PACE demanded her release within 24 hours.

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