Moscow jails activist for 25 years for opposing Ukraine war
by Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#6AW2A)
Vladimir Kara-Murza's harsh sentence is the longest yet given to political opponent of Vladimir Putin
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 of Ukraine.
Kara-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 Ukraine. He was later also charged with high treason over a series of public speeches he made that criticised Kremlin policies and the war in Ukraine.
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