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The mother of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko addressed US President Barack Obama with a letter asking him to show mercy and return her son, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence in New Jersey's Fort Dix prison, to Russia.
The woman, Lyubov Yaroshenko, told
Izvestia Daily that she would exhaust all means to have her son returned to Russia, and even after failing to receive justice from the US court system, she still hopes that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama will help her.
"American lawyers have spent a whole year gathering proof that my son is not guilty or complicit in crimes he was convicted of.
There are irrefutable facts that prove that the sentence passed by Judge Jed Rakoff was a mistake. I am confident that the truth will sooner or later become public and this will cast a shadow on the United States that declares itself a state with the rule of law with obligations to protect human rights all over the world," Yaroshenko wrote in her letter.
She added that she was seriously concerned about her son's health which was rapidly deteriorating and, in Yaroshenko's own words, this has happened because of the poor prison conditions and inadequate medical assistance.
Comment: And on the other side of the pond...Abusive force: Metropolitan Police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests