MOSCOW (AP) — A courtroom in Moscow on Monday convicted a prime Kremlin foe on fees of treason and denigrating the Russian army and sentenced him to 25 years in jail.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., a outstanding opposition activist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a 12 months in the past. He has rejected the costs towards him as political and likened the judicial proceedings towards him to the present trials in the course of the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The costs towards Kara-Murza stem from his March 15 speech to the Arizona Home of Representatives wherein he denounced Russia’s army motion in Ukraine. Investigators added the treason fees whereas he was in custody.
Russia adopted a regulation criminalizing spreading “false data” about its army shortly after it despatched troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Authorities have used the regulation to stifle criticism of what the Kremlin calls “a particular army operation.”