Vladimir Kara-Murza was transferred from the colony to the prison hospital, lawyers were not allowed to see him

On Friday, July 5, it became known that Vladimir Kara-Murza was transferred from the IK-6 colony in Omsk to the regional hospital No. 11 at the Federal Penitentiary Service in Omsk Oblast. Lawyers were not allowed to see him, OVD-Info reports.

Evgenia Kara-Murza, Vladimir’s wife, recalls that he suffers from polyneuropathy, a disease caused by two severe poisonings, which is included in the list of diseases that prevent serving a sentence.

On April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced opposition politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in a maximum security penal colony. This was the punishment requested by the prosecutor. The sentence was handed down by Judge Sergei Podoprigorov (he is on the “Magnitsky list” that Kara-Murza worked on). The hearings were held in the Moscow City Court behind closed doors due to the classification “secret”.

Kara-Murza was found guilty of disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army (paragraph “d” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), participating in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (part 1 of article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

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On October 6, 2022, Vladimir Kara-Murza was charged with treason in a Russian court. According to investigators from the Russian FSB, Kara-Murza had been collaborating with one of the NATO states for several years, undermining Russia’s national security. For his activities, he allegedly received a reward of $30,000 per month.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, previously declared a “foreign agent” by the Russian authorities, has been in custody since April 2022 – he was arrested for spreading “fakes” about the Russian army after he condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine while in the United States. In July 2022, a case was opened against him for participating in the activities of an undesirable organization.

Kara-Murza achieved the passage of the Magnitsky Act in the United States, which provides for a ban on entry into the United States and a freeze on assets for Russian officials responsible for gross human rights violations. He was the chairman of the board of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, vice president of the Free Russia Foundation, and coordinator of the Open Russia Foundation.