2023-07-31 15:27:35
– Justice validates the imprisonment of the opponent Kara-Mourza for 25 years
A Russian court has rejected an appeal by opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza, maintaining his 25-year prison sentence for “treason”, a particularly harsh judgment in the midst of a crackdown on voices critical of the offensive in Ukraine.
Posted today at 5:27 p.m.
Opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced in April for “high treason”.
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“The decision of the Moscow City Court of April 17, 2023 remains unchanged,” reads the appeal judgment cited by Russian news agencies. Both the appeal hearing and the trial took place behind closed doors.
The sentence handed down to Mr. Kara-Murza, who was one of the last major Kremlin critics not to be behind bars or exiled abroad, is the heaviest imposed on an opponent in the recent history of the country. He is also in very poor health, according to his supporters, as a result of poisonings he suffered in the past.
The opponent was sentenced in April for “high treason”, spreading “false information” regarding the Russian army and illegal work for an “undesirable” organization. This condemnation of Mr. Kara-Mourza had been denounced as being “politically motivated” by the United States and as “scandalously severe” by the European Union. Mr. Kara-Mourza said he was “proud” of his political commitment in his last statements before his conviction.
Many opponents sentenced
The opponent almost died following being poisoned twice, in 2015 and 2017, from assassination attempts which he attributes to Russian power. His supporters are worried regarding his health. In recent years, almost all Russian opponents have been sentenced to heavy prison terms or had to flee the country. The best known, anti-corruption activist Alexeï Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence for “fraud”, is the subject of a new trial for “extremism” in which he risks 20 years. Judgment in this case is due on August 4.
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