Before Brittney Griner, there was Naama Issachar. What was supposed to be a three-hour layover in Moscow turned into a monthslong ordeal in Russian detention for Issachar, an American Israeli woman ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet the mother of American-born Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar, jailed in Russia for carrying a few grams of cannabis in her luggage, the Kremlin said ...

When Naama Issachar was caught with 9.5 grams of marijuana at a Moscow airport in April, the 26-year-old’s expectation of a wrist slap turned into a nightmare. Earlier this month, she was sentenced to ...

Naama Issachar, an American Israeli woman who spent 10 months in Russian prison for traveling with a small amount of cannabis, is breaking her silence for the first time as her case draws comparisons ...

After learning of WNBA star Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia, Naama Issachar knew she needed to share her story. While traveling in 2019, Issachar had a layover in Moscow. After authorities found ...

Family, friends and supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia for drug offenses, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2019. (Tomer ...

A Russian court has sentenced Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman and Israeli army vet, to seven and a half years in prison on a narcotics smuggling charge after less than a third of an ounce of ...

JERUSALEM — Naama Issachar was boarding a connecting flight at the Moscow airport on her way home to Israel last April when the authorities found a few grams of marijuana in her luggage, an amount so ...

MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. The Federal Penitentiary Service (FPS) of Russia confirmed that the Israeli national Naama Issachar, sentenced in Russia for drug smuggling and pardoned by Russian ...