AFP, MOSCOWRussian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday pardoned an Israeli-US woman jailed for drug trafficking, on the eve of a visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I thank my friend President Putin for having pardoned Naama Issahar,” Netanyahu said in a statement before leaving Washington. “Guided by the principles of humanity, I pardon Naama Issachar,” Putin said in the decree cited by the Kremlin. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported that the young woman was to return to Israel yesterday in Netanyahu’s plane. Putin said he had assured her mother that all would go well, while Yaffa Issachar said Putin had promised to send her daughter home.

Source: Taipei Times January 30, 2020 16:03 UTC