
© Valentyn Ogirenko / ReutersUkrainian parliamentary deputy Nadiya Savchenko attends a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, March 15, 2018.
Ukrainian MP Nadezhda Savchenko, once glorified as a Ukrainian "hero" persecuted by Moscow, has been detained again - this time by her fellow countrymen. The former pilot is now suspected of plotting a coup and a terrorist attack.
Savchenko was arrested by Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officers right in the building of the Verkhovnaya Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) on Thursday. Moments before that, the MPs stripped Savchenko of her legal immunity that allows Ukrainian MPs to enjoy protection from prosecution and agreed to her arrest.
The lawmakers were shown a video obtained by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office that allegedly shows Savchenko discussing details of a coup plot with her accomplices. According to the video, the MP even planned to assassinate Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. She is suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, planning to kill members of parliament, government, and the president, and organizing a coup.
Comment: Caitlin Johnstone summed up this wave of censorship quite well in a recent article: