A Moscow court has sentenced one of Russia's most high-profile Kremlin critics, Vladimir Kara-Murza, to 25 years in prison on charges of treason for criticizing the war in Ukraine.
Navalny, Russia's best-known Putin critic, on Monday said he was "deeply upset" by Kara-Murza's sentence.
after prolonged stints in solitary confinement. His team this week said it feared authorities may be being slowly poisoning him again. Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is accused of treason and spreading"false" information about the Russian army, stands inside a defendants' cage during his sentencing at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on April 17, 2023.Kara-Murza was active in campaigning in the U.S. and Europe to bring sanctions against Russian officials accused of human rights abuses. A friend of the late Sen. John McCain, Kara-Murza played a leading role in persuading the U.S.
The British Foreign Office on Monday noted it had also already sanctioned the judge for previous involvement in human rights violations and warned it will "consider further measures" to hold to account those involved in Kara-Murza's detention and mistreatment.Russian authorities charged Kara-Murza in part over a speech he gave to lawmakers in Arizona in March 2022 shortly after Russia's invasion, where he accused Putin of war crimes.
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