Maria Butina's father begs Putin to help his daughter: American authorities (Robert Mueller) are trying 'to break her' washex.am/2rciKjG
"Being unable to prove her guilt in a fair trial, the American authorities set the objective to break her and force her to confess to the crimes she has never committed," Valery Butin wrote to Putin, Sputnik News , a news outlet owned by the Russian government, reported Wednesday
“She is subjected to sophisticated torture: for two weeks in prison she was not allowed to sleep, being woken every 15 minutes; she was also kept in a cold facility and denied medical care; subjected to humiliating strip searches...”
“... as well as to repeated and lengthy periods of administrative segregation, which, in total, have amounted to nearly three months.”
Butin's appeal, which is to have Putin to become personally involved and to provide assistance to Butina's lawyers, comes after a federal district court judge in D.C. on Wednesday denied Butina's request to be taken out of "administrative segregation," or solitary confinement.
She is being held at William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Va., as she awaits a hearing date.
