Vladimir Kara-Murza suffers from a neurological disease.
Moscow:
The wife of imprisoned Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said on Monday that many in Russian politics, including her husband’s, have expressed concern following Alexei Navalny’s death in an Arctic penal colony last month. The prisoner’s life is in danger.
Kara-Murza has denounced Russia’s war in Ukraine and lobbied the West to impose sanctions on Moscow. Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison last April for treason and other charges, which he denied and compared the case against him to a Stalinist show trial.
It is the harshest sentence imposed on an opposition politician since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Evgenia Kara-Murza, advocacy director of the civil society organization Free Russia Foundation, said: “As far as I know, many people are in jail today for opposing the current regime, and many people’s Lives are at risk.”
“This is not only the life of my husband, who was really an opponent of the regime for many years, but also the life of a fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin.”
Navalny, the fiercest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in a prison camp on February 16 at the age of 47, prompting accusations from his supporters that he was murdered. The Kremlin denies the state had any involvement in his death.
Yevgenia Kara-Murza said other activists, including Alexandra Skochilenko, who was jailed for protesting the war in Ukraine, and for criticizing the Russian invasion Moscow district councilor Alexei Gorinov replaced supermarket price tags with calls for an end to the conflict. risk.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, who survived two poisonings and suffered from neurological problems, was moved to a new Siberian penal colony in January and kept alone, his wife said imprisonment.
“Now he is basically being held captive by the same people who tried to kill him twice in the past,” Yevgenia Kara-Murza said.
She said her husband was kept in a small cell of about six square meters, with a bed taped to the wall during the day to prevent him from lying down and a backless stool. He was not allowed to receive phone calls or visits.
In December, before transferring schools, Karamurza had a brief phone conversation with his three children.
“We have three children and it was a 15-minute call, which meant they each had five minutes on the phone with their father,” Evgenia Kara-Murza said.
“I have to use a timer to measure the minutes.”
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