Vladimir Kara-Murza had been charged with high treason and spreading false information to discredit Russian army
A court in Moscow has sentenced the opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison, in one of the most high-profile cases to date of a Russian dissident being jailed for opposing the invasion ofKara-Murza, who holds Russian and British citizenship and studied at the University of Cambridge, was detained in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about the Russian army in.
In a final speech to the court last week, Kara-Murza struck a defiant tone, declined to ask the court to acquit him, and said he stood by everything he had said. “I only blame myself for one thing,” Kara-Murza, 41, whom Amnesty International has designated a prisoner of conscience, said.
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