Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza jailed for 25 years in treason case
Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and an opposition politician who holds Russian and British passports, spent years speaking out against Presidentand lobbied Western governments to impose sanctions on Russia and individual Russians for purported human rights violations.
State prosecutors, who had requested the court jail him for 25 years, had accused him of treason and of discrediting the Russian military after he criticized what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.In a CNN interview broadcast hours before he was arrested, Kara-Murza had alleged that Russia was being run by a “regime of murderers”.
In his final speech to the court last week, Kara-Murza compared his trial, which was held behind closed doors, to Josef Stalin’s show trials in the 1930s. He had declined to ask the court to acquit him, saying he stood by and was proud of everything he had said.Putin critic Navalny sentenced to 9 years in prison, his lawyers briefly detained by Russian police
“Criminals are supposed to repent of what they have done. I, on the other hand, am in prison for my political views. I also know that the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate,” he had said. One of his lawyers, Maria Eismont, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that Kara-Murza’s legal team would appeal Monday’s verdict, which she said had been marred by many serious legal violations.In London, Britain said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest over what it said was a “politically motivated” conviction.
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