Israeli prisoner in Russia, Naama Issachar, has been transferred to a remote prison with poor living conditions according to a report on the Israeli media Kan News. Making her situation worse, her mother is no longer allowed to visit her or to send letters.
According to the report the new prison is known as Prison 11, which is a remote facility on the outskirts of Moscow. Issachar’s lawyer is still able to visit her and after doing so said that the conditions in the facility were now worse than they were in the previous prison and that Naama’s mood was poor. She was not able to bring the warm clothing nor the books that were sent to her by her family.
The lawyer also said that Naama is scheduled to be sent to a different prison next week and that he isn’t being told where that is.
Yaffe Issachar, is appealing to the courts to bring Naama back to the prison where she was previously held in order to upgrade the conditions and to be able to continue to visit her.
Naama was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after Russian authorities caught her with 9.5 grams of cannabis while on a connecting flight from India to Israel.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This is insane. There needs to be an outrage and Israelis and Jews around the world need to be holding protests and exhausting all resources to get this girl out of prison. Even more than Rubashkins case this punishment DEFINITELY does not fit the crime. Nowadays weed is becoming legal or decriminalized and to be treated as if this is a world class criminal is just mind boggling. Terrorist get better treatment! What is Russia trying to prove!? Putting this poor girl in prison for so many years over a crime which deserves a slap on the wrist isnt enough for them! All the Yiddishe organizations need to be involved and not let go until she is freed!
There are many Russians themselves are drug addicts and pushers and nobody cares about them. How come she got such a severe sentence for this infraction?
Does anyone know of a name for tehillim?
What was she thinking bringing in drugs? she wont get caught? didn’t we learn anything after Japan?
Why is this news coverage? Many Millions of people are imprisoned for crimes around the world. Why is this different?
Naama bas Yaffe, I would assume.
Why is this different? Becaue being sentences to over 7 years in prison for something that most countries would just give a fine for is blasphemous. And not only that to be treated worse than a world class drug dealer is just beyond belief. And she is a yid and I haven’t heard of any Jewish organizations trying to do anything about this yet.