In April, Kara-Murza was sentenced to an unprecedented sentence by Russian standards Alexander Nemenov / AFP – 10/27/2021
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, sentenced to 25 years in prison for “treason” for condemning Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, has arrived at the high-security Omsk penal colony in Siberia to serve his sentence, his lawyer told Sunday. (24).
Kara-Murza, a major critic of President Vladimir Putin and who holds dual Russian and British citizenship, was sentenced in April to an unprecedented sentence, prompting international leaders and his supporters to demand his release.
“Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to the high-security penal colony IK-6 in Omsk to serve his sentence,” his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on Facebook.
He added: “He was immediately transferred to a solitary confinement cell.”
Omsk is located about 2,700 kilometers east of Moscow. The Russian penal system often takes weeks to transfer prisoners to the most remote prisons in the country. Often, the whereabouts of a passing prisoner are unknown, and they stop at several prisons along the way.
The lawyer warned that imprisoning Kara Murza (42 years old) in this type of cell would endanger his fragile health. The opponent’s lawyers and his family claim that he suffers from a nervous disease called neuropathy, due to the two attempts to poison him.
Kara-Murza was convicted of spreading “false information” about the Russian army and its association with an “undesirable organization.” The trial was behind closed doors.
Hey Military leader Igor GirkinAlso called Igor Strelkov, he is Ukrainian and lives in the Donetsk People’s Republic, a breakaway region of Ukrainian territory that initially largely supported the arrival of Russian soldiers. Today, he is a high-ranking military officer, and is also a blogger Behind bars in Russia Because he criticized the administration Russian President Vladimir Putin Conflict on the social network
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters – 08.29.2023
Gerken, accused of extremism, was arrested in July and has remained behind bars since then awaiting trial. Today, he was placed in a “glass cage” while he filed a lawsuit in Russian courts to overturn his detention. The blogger was surrounded by journalists who closely photographed the then leader
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters – 08.29.2023
In July, Russian courts opened an “extremism” case against popular nationalist blogger and former separatist leader of eastern Ukraine, Igor Girkin, who has strongly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin. The influencer, known on social media as Igor Strelkov, supports the attack in Ukraine, but criticized the Russian leader on his social media account, which has about 875,000 followers.
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters – 08.29.2023
The opening of the case sent a firm message about criticism of the government weeks after the brief rebellion led by the Wagner paramilitary group. Gerkin is charged with “public calls for extremist activities,” for which he could be sentenced to five years in prison.
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters – 08.29.2023
He is 52 years old and a former military commander of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic. He was one of the heroes of the pro-Russian rebellion in 2014, when the conflict began between Kiev and separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters – 08.29.2023
He was one of three people sentenced to life imprisonment by a Dutch court in 2022 for his role in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as it flew over Ukraine in 2014. In recent years, he has become one of Putin’s most outspoken critics. And control the military campaign in Ukraine
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In one of his recent posts, the nationalist blogger asked the Russian president to hand over power to his successor. “The country will not be able to withstand six more years of cowardly weakness of power,” he wrote.
