Putin Critic SENTENCED To 25 Years In Prison
A Russian court on Monday sentenced Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison for treason and denigrating the military, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The charges against Kara-Murza stem from a March 15 speech he made to the Arizona House of Representatives in the United States, in which he denounced Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Investigators added the treason charges while he was in custody.
Russia adopted a law criminalising spreading “false information” about its military shortly after it sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Authorities have regularly used the wartime law to stifle criticism of what the Kremlin calls “a special military operation”.
Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and an opposition politician who holds Russian and British passports, spent years speaking out against President Vladimir Putin and lobbied Western governments to impose sanctions on Russia and individual Russians for purported human rights violations.
The British government on Monday summoned the Russian ambassador to make clear its condemnation of what it described as the “politically motivated” conviction and sentencing.
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