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Friday, February 17, 2017
Ukrainian librarian under Russian house arrest takes case to court of human rights
Natalya Sharina, a Ukrainian librarian
held under house arrest in Russia since October 2015
,
has taken her case to the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.
Since her arrest in 2015, the Russian authorities have extended the order for Sharina, director of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow, to be detained at home repeatedly, despite calls for her release.
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