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On Monday 11 April 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kara-Murza was arrested outside his house in Russia on charges of disobeying police orders, and faced up to 15 days in jail or a small fine. It was not immediately clear if Kara-Murza’s arrest was linked to his opposition to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. [86]
Vladimir Kara-Murza Russia-born Kara-Murza, 42, had been imprisoned since 2022 on charges of treason and spreading false information about the military following Russia's war in Ukraine.
Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza who was released from jail on Thursday in a major prisoner swap said he and others were subject to illegal psychological torture during their imprisonment.
A Moscow court has handed down Vladimir Kara-Murza the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after finding him guilty of treason and other offences he denied committing.
Kara-Murza was arrested in 2022 and sentenced to 25 years on charges stemming from a speech that year to the Arizona House of Representatives, in which he denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Memorial, which is Russia’s most prominent human rights group and winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, has declared him a political prisoner.
He previously had been held in the Vladimir region in central Russia about 230 kilometers (140 miles) from Moscow. Kara-Murza was arrested in 2022 and later sentenced to 25 years on charges stemming from a speech that year to the Arizona House of Representatives in which he denounced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician serving a lengthy jail sentence for treason, ... He was arrested shortly afterward and later sentenced to 25 years in prison, in a decision ...
“Two years on from Vladimir Kara-Murza’s arrest on fabricated charges, I urge the Russian authorities to release him immediately on humanitarian grounds,” he said in a statement.