The wife of British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza says she fears for the life of her husband, locked up in Russian prisons, following the death of Alexei Navalny.
Kara-Murza has long been a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has survived two poisonings since 2015, which left him with a form of nerve disease called polyneuropathy.
He has been in prison since April 2023, when a Moscow court sentenced him to 25 years of imprisonment for treason and spreading "false information" about the armed forces for the conflict in Ukraine.
There has been no news of him for weeks, since, according to his wife's complaint, he disappeared from the IK-6 penal colony in Omsk, Siberia, where he was serving his sentence.
"I believe - Evgenia Kara-Murza told the Press Association - that my husband's life is in danger, as well as that of many other political prisoners in Russian prisons, because these people are kept behind bars, very often with serious pathologies, without medical care adequate. And they are kept like this precisely because their state of health worsens. With everything that is happening - added the dissident's wife - I cannot afford to collapse, I cannot afford to be afraid, I cannot afford just the normal human sensation of fear. I have to fight it, move forward and say yes, I'm afraid, but it's not important right now."
"Continuing the fight is important, telling the stories of those people who are suffering because of the regime is important. Today people are arrested for placing flowers at the memorials of the victims of the repression, the situation is deteriorating day by day", is the alarm raised by Evgenia Kara-Murza.
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