Imprisoned Kremlin critic Kara-Murza transferred to a prison hospital, his wife and lawyers say
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Imprisoned Kremlin critic Kara-Murza transferred to a prison hospital, his wife and lawyers say

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a prison hospital, and his attorneys have been unable to visit him there since Thursday, his wife and one of his lawyers said Friday. The legislation that outlaws “spreading false information” about the Russian army or “discrediting it” has been used against opposition politicians, human rights activists and ordinary Russians critical of the Kremlin, with many receiving long prison terms. The lawyers said in a Telegram post that the sentence demand was made Thursday in the trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, which comes during a crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached new heights since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.

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Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Russian hitman Vadim Krasikov is …

Who’s in the massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Who’s in the massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West?

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — One spent over 5½ years behind bars in Russia while other, higher-profile detainees were released ahead of him. The Prague-based editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service was accused of not self-reporting as a “foreign agent” and was convicted in July of spreading false information about the Russian military — charges rejected by …

A well-known Russian dissident is moved from prison along with others, their destinations unknown
4 months, 3 weeks ago

A well-known Russian dissident is moved from prison along with others, their destinations unknown

LA Times  

Ilya Yashin, a prominent Kremlin critic who is serving an 8½-year sentence for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine, has been moved from his prison to an unknown destination, his lawyer said Tuesday. Among them are Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, sentenced to 2½ years in February; musician Alexandra Skochilenko, serving seven years for …

Wife of jailed Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza calls for West to step in with him stuck in prison hospital
5 months, 1 week ago

Wife of jailed Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza calls for West to step in with him stuck in prison hospital

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “So, 25 years is not the limit for the …

Kremlin critic Kara-Murza’s health ‘relatively stable’ in a prison hospital, his lawyer says
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Kremlin critic Kara-Murza’s health ‘relatively stable’ in a prison hospital, his lawyer says

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza found his health was “relatively stable” after visiting him in a prison hospital where he had been held incommunicado for several days, the dissident’s legal team said Wednesday. Evgenia Kara-Murza said on X that her husband was “alive and as well as can be expected.” Kara-Murza’s wife and …

Imprisoned Kremlin critic Kara-Murza transferred to a prison hospital, his wife and lawyers say
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Imprisoned Kremlin critic Kara-Murza transferred to a prison hospital, his wife and lawyers say

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a prison hospital, and his attorneys have been unable to visit him there since Thursday, his wife and one of his lawyers said Friday. Yevgenia Kara-Murza told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that prison officials said her husband was transferred to the hospital for an …

Russia critic Kara-Murza wins Pulitzer for passionate columns written from prison cell
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Russia critic Kara-Murza wins Pulitzer for passionate columns written from prison cell

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has written columns as a contributor for The Washington Post from his prison cell in Russia, has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. The prize was awarded to Kara-Murza “for passionate columns written at great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on …

US lawmakers urge release of Russia critic Kara-Murza on the anniversary of his imprisonment
8 months, 2 weeks ago

US lawmakers urge release of Russia critic Kara-Murza on the anniversary of his imprisonment

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress on Tuesday called for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. as lawmakers marked the second anniversary of his imprisonment, part of the Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on critics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “The bottom line is that Vladimir Kara-Murza will not be forgotten,” Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, chairman of the …

Who are the Russian dissidents still serving time after Alexei Navalny died behind bars?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Who are the Russian dissidents still serving time after Alexei Navalny died behind bars?

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in prison, which devastated Kremlin critics and spurred concerns about the safety of other imprisoned dissidents. LILIA CHANYSHEVA, SERVING 7 ½ YEARS Lilia Chanysheva, the 42-year-old former head of Alexei Navalny’s office in …

Life inside Russia's penal colonies for Vladimir Putin's political prisoners
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Life inside Russia's penal colonies for Vladimir Putin's political prisoners

ABC  

A toothbrush and a mug — these are the only personal items Vladimir Kara-Murza can keep behind bars at one of Russia's most brutal penal colonies. After the still-unexplained death of Alexei Navalny at an Arctic penal colony earlier this month, human rights advocates have warned that political prisoners like Kara-Murza are facing increased risks inside Russia's prison system. A …

What’s life like for Russia’s political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment
9 months, 3 weeks ago

What’s life like for Russia’s political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment

Associated Press  

This story is part of a larger series on the crackdown on dissent in Russia. For political prisoners like Kara-Murza, life in Russia’s penal colonies is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, sleep deprivation, insufficient food, health care that is poor or simply denied, and a dizzying set of arbitrary rules. THE GULAG’S LEGACY Former inmates, their relatives …

Mother of Kremlin critic Navalny shown his body, resisting pressure to agree to secret burial
10 months ago

Mother of Kremlin critic Navalny shown his body, resisting pressure to agree to secret burial

LA Times  

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason, during a hearing Thursday broadcast by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service. The mother of Russia’s top opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that she has seen her son’s body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret burial outside the public …

Who are other Russian dissidents besides the late Alexei Navalny?
10 months ago

Who are other Russian dissidents besides the late Alexei Navalny?

Associated Press  

The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia’s political opposition. Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh arrives at court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago this week, he and other prominent Putin critics, including chess legend Garry Kasparov …

Wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza fears he will face the same fate in prison as Alexei Navalny
10 months ago

Wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza fears he will face the same fate in prison as Alexei Navalny

ABC  

Evgenia Kara-Murza has no doubts who was responsible for the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in prison on Friday. "The reason Alexei Navalny had to be eliminated like that is because he represented a very strong alternative to Vladimir Putin and refused to back down, refused to be silenced." Russian authorities deny Navalny was assassinated, saying he died …

Russian opposition figure Kara-Murza is moved to another prison and returns to solitary confinement
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Russian opposition figure Kara-Murza is moved to another prison and returns to solitary confinement

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Lawyers for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason, revealed Tuesday he has been transferred to another prison in Siberia and placed in solitary confinement again over an alleged minor infraction. The unrelenting pressure on Russian dissidents at home and abroad has intensified significantly since President Vladimir Putin sent troops …

Russian opposition figure Kara-Murza has disappeared from prison, colleagues say
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Russian opposition figure Kara-Murza has disappeared from prison, colleagues say

Associated Press  

Supporters of prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason, said Monday that he has disappeared from the Siberian prison where he was behind bars. A lawyer for Kara-Murza, Vadim Prokhorov, said another lawyer who tried to visit the political activist and journalist on Monday was told that he wasn’t in the prison, …

Wife of twice-poisoned Briton held in Kremlin prison fears ‘time is running out’
1 year, 1 month ago

Wife of twice-poisoned Briton held in Kremlin prison fears ‘time is running out’

The Independent  

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Russian authorities detain lawyers for Alexei Navalny as pressure mounts on political prisoners
1 year, 2 months ago

Russian authorities detain lawyers for Alexei Navalny as pressure mounts on political prisoners

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Russian authorities on Friday detained three lawyers representing imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny after searching their homes, his allies said, a step that comes amid increasing pressure on the Kremlin’s critics. With Navalny being held in a special punitive facility in the colony, he is not allowed any phone calls and hardly any visits from anyone but …

Russia detains 3 lawyers for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny after raids
1 year, 2 months ago

Russia detains 3 lawyers for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny after raids

LA Times  

Russian authorities Friday detained three lawyers representing imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny after searching their homes, the dissident politician’s allies said, a step that comes amid increasing pressure on the Kremlin’s critics. With Navalny being held in a special punitive facility in the colony, he is not allowed any phone calls and hardly any visits from anyone but his lawyers, …

A Kremlin critic was transferred to a Siberian prison and placed in a ‘punishment cell,’ lawyer says
1 year, 2 months ago

A Kremlin critic was transferred to a Siberian prison and placed in a ‘punishment cell,’ lawyer says

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — An imprisoned Russian opposition figure has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and placed in a tiny “punishment cell,” his lawyer said Sunday. Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., 42, earlier this year was convicted of treason for publicly denouncing Russia’s war in Ukraine and sentenced to 25 years in prison as part of the Kremlin’s relentless …

Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny says he may face life sentence
1 year, 7 months ago

Jailed Kremlin foe Navalny says he may face life sentence

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for life, as authorities set the stage for a new trial against the Kremlin’s leading critic. Navalny said by video link from prison during the hearing that the extremism charges which he rejected as “absurd” …

Vladimir Kara-Murza | Voice of dissent
1 year, 8 months ago

Vladimir Kara-Murza | Voice of dissent

The Hindu  

“This day will come as inevitably as spring follows even the coldest winter. From this realisation, from this reflection, the long, difficult but vital path towards the recovery and restoration of Russia, its return to the community of civilised countries, will begin,” said the 41-year-old Vladimir Kara-Murza, defiant from his glass cage inside a Russian courtroom, on April 10. According …

How the trial of Kara-Murza exposes the brutal repression in Vladimir Putin’s Russia
1 year, 8 months ago

How the trial of Kara-Murza exposes the brutal repression in Vladimir Putin’s Russia

Firstpost  

Vladimir Putin has presided over a regime where political opponents have been neutralised, imprisoned or murdered and Kara-Murza is merely the latest example Longtime Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison after what the journalist and activist has dismissed as a 1930s-style “show trial”. Over the years, Kara-Murza has been …

Opposition figure’s sentence underlines Russian intolerance
1 year, 8 months ago

Opposition figure’s sentence underlines Russian intolerance

Associated Press  

The 25-year treason sentence imposed on prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday was a particularly severe show of Russian authorities’ intensifying intolerance for criticism of the war in Ukraine and other dissenting opinions. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia for years has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin, arresting countless protesters, cracking down on independent news …

Putin’s critic gets ‘harsh punishment’ of 25 years jail, says ‘I don’t repent…’
1 year, 8 months ago

Putin’s critic gets ‘harsh punishment’ of 25 years jail, says ‘I don’t repent…’

Live Mint  

Russian opposition politician and Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Moscow court. State prosecutors had accused Kara-Murza of discrediting the Russian military after he criticised what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine. "Discrediting" the army can currently be punished by up to five years in prison, while spreading deliberately false …

Putin critic and Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza given 25-year prison sentence
1 year, 8 months ago

Putin critic and Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza given 25-year prison sentence

Firstpost  

Kara-Murza is a prominent opposition activist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a year ago Moscow: A court in Moscow on Monday convicted a top Kremlin foe on charges of treason and denigrating the Russian military and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three …

Putin critic jailed for 25 years in harshest sentence since Ukraine invasion
1 year, 8 months ago

Putin critic jailed for 25 years in harshest sentence since Ukraine invasion

Hindustan Times  

Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for a quarter of a century by a Moscow court on Monday, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after it found him guilty of treason and other offences he denied. Russian President Vladimir Putin Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and an opposition politician who holds Russian and British …

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, sentenced to 25 years in jail
1 year, 8 months ago

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, sentenced to 25 years in jail

ABC  

Vladimir Kara-Murza, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most high-profile and fiercest critics, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail after being found guilty of treason and other offences, following a secret trial in Moscow. Key points: Vladimir Kara-Murza's sentence is the harshest to be handed down against an activist since Russia's invasion of Ukraine Prosecutors have accused him …

Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in prison
1 year, 8 months ago

Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in prison

Al Jazeera  

Kara-Murza, who has denounced Russia’s war in Ukraine, jailed for treason and denigrating the army. 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. Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and an opposition politician who holds Russian and …

Russian activist who denounced Ukraine war convicted of treason, sentenced to 25 years
1 year, 8 months ago

Russian activist who denounced Ukraine war convicted of treason, sentenced to 25 years

LA Times  

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. is escorted to a court hearing in Moscow in February. Amnesty International denounced Kara-Murza’s sentence as “yet another chilling example of the systematic repression of civil society, which has broadened and accelerated under the Kremlin since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.” “The so-called ‘crimes’ Vladimir Kara-Murza was tried for — speaking out against …

Russia sentences opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison
1 year, 8 months ago

Russia sentences opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison

NPR  

Russia sentences opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP A Moscow court sentenced on Monday Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison over his criticism of the war in Ukraine — the harshest prison term delivered yet to a government opponent since the Kremlin launched its invasion in …

Kremlin critic in prison in northwest Russia, allies say
1 year, 10 months ago

Kremlin critic in prison in northwest Russia, allies say

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Allies and family members of an opposition politician imprisoned in Russia say he is being held in a restricted housing unit in a penal colony in the northwest of the country, isolated from most inmates and not allowed to make phone calls. Pivovarov’s ally and partner Tatyana Usmanova said on Monday that the politician’s mother was able …

Vladimir Putin's critics: dead, jailed, exiled
2 years, 1 month ago

Vladimir Putin's critics: dead, jailed, exiled

Raw Story  

Opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who went on trial in Moscow on Wednesday, risks becoming the latest in a long line of Kremlin critics slapped with heavy jail terms. Jailed Russia's main opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-made nerve agent, on a trip to Siberia in 2020. Exiled Some of Putin's high-profile critics have been based abroad …

Russia charges jailed Kremlin critic with treason
2 years, 2 months ago

Russia charges jailed Kremlin critic with treason

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — Russian authorities have brought treason charges against a prominent opposition activist who was jailed for allegedly spreading “false information” about Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. “These speeches did not carry any threat to the country; it was public, open criticism,” Prokhorov told Russian state news agency Tass, Kara-Murza denies committing treason, the lawyer said. Russia adopted a law …

Kremlin critic charged over criticizing fighting in Ukraine
2 years, 5 months ago

Kremlin critic charged over criticizing fighting in Ukraine

Associated Press  

Russian prosecutors on Tuesday brought criminal charges against another opposition figure who has criticized Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, his lawyer said. Instead, Yashin was charged under a new law making it a crime to spread false information about the military, said his lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov. Prosecutors searched Yashin’s Moscow apartment on Tuesday evening, and video taken at the scene …

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Prominent Russian anti-war activist held
2 years, 8 months ago

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Prominent Russian anti-war activist held

Al Jazeera  

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Russian opposition politician and critic of President Vladimir Putin, has been arrested outside his Moscow home. On Tuesday, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Twitter post that, “The United States is troubled by Russian authorities’ detention today in Moscow of prominent civil society leader Vladimir Kara-Murza. “We are monitoring this situation closely …

U.S. calls for the immediate release of a vocal Kremlin critic detained in Moscow
2 years, 8 months ago

U.S. calls for the immediate release of a vocal Kremlin critic detained in Moscow

NPR  

U.S. calls for the immediate release of a vocal Kremlin critic detained in Moscow Enlarge this image toggle caption Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images Western officials are calling for Russian authorities to release a prominent opposition activist and critic of the invasion of Ukraine after reports of his arrest emerged Monday. The police detained Kara-Murza …

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