A Russian-British citizen, Vladimir Kara-Mourza was sentenced in April 2023 to 25 years in prison for “treason” and spreading “false information” about the conflict in Ukraine.
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One of the lawyers of imprisoned Russian opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza assured on Wednesday July 31 that he did not know where his client was, in the midst of a wave of speculation about a possible prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. “Today, Vladimir Kara-Murza’s lawyer was not allowed to visit him in the prison hospital for the second day in a row. The exact location of the political prisoner is unknown.”lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on his Facebook account.
According to him, the penitentiary administration of the Siberian region of Omsk, where Vladimir Kara-Murza is serving his sentence, on Tuesday refused access to Vladimir Kara-Murza’s local lawyer, Sergei Safronov, on the grounds that he would be “undergoing a medical examination“On Wednesday, he was unable to see his client for the same reason.
A Russian-British citizen, Vladimir Kara-Mourza was sentenced in April 2023 to 25 years in prison for “treason” and spreading “false information” about the conflict in Ukraine. He had been the victim of two poisonings in 2015 and 2017, which he blames on the Kremlin.
In recent days, at least five Russian opposition figures, as well as a Russian-German convicted of treason and an activist with “cooperated with Ukraine“, all imprisoned in Russia, have been transferred to unknown destinations, according to their relatives and NGOs. This unusual phenomenon has given rise to rumors of a possible imminent prisoner exchange involving in particular Russian opponents and Americans detained in Russia.
