An Israeli-US woman sentenced by a Russian court to seven-and-a-half years in jail for drug trafficking has asked President Vladimir Putin for a pardon, her lawyers were quoted as saying Sunday.
Naama Issachar "decided to ask the Russian president for a pardon and a written request has been filed," the lawyers said in a statement quoted by Russian press agencies.
Issachar, 26, was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in April as she travelled from India to Israel.
Russian authorities said they found nine grammes (three ounces) of cannabis in her checked luggage.
The announcement of her request for a pardon was made two days after Issachar's mother Yaffa met Putin when he was on an official visit to Israel.
Following the meeting, the mother told media that Putin had "promised" he would send her daughter back home.
Putin said he had sought to reassure the mother: "I told her, and I shall say it again: everything will be fine."
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