MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - Israel expects the Russian court to give a fair consideration to the appeal against the sentence on Israeli citizen Naama Issachar, who was convicted of drug possession and contraband.
"The entire Israeli public is monitoring the case. The two countries are holding talks on the highest political level," Israeli Charge d'Affaires a.i. in Russia Yacov Livne told Interfax on Thursday after a hearing at the Moscow Regional Court.
Livne said he was hopeful that the court would get to the bottom of the case and would take into account the long period spent by Issachar in custody and her young age so that she could return home in the near future.
On Thursday, the Moscow Regional Court delayed until December 18 the hearing of the appeal against the sentence given to Israeli citizen Naama Issachar for possession and smuggling of about ten grams of hashish into Russia.