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The UN denounces the prolonged detention of the Russian opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza

2023-02-22T17:02:13.553Z


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has pointed to the "prolonged detention" of Russian opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza,...


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk pointed to the "

prolonged detention

" of Russian opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza, imprisoned for nearly a year for criticizing the offensive in Ukraine .

"

#Russia: UN Human Rights Chief @volker_turk is concerned about the prolonged detention of opponent and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza since April 2022

," the High Commissioner's office tweeted.

Volker Türk calls for the establishment of "

a fair procedure

" and respect for

the opponent's "

right to defence ".

Rare opposition figure

Winner of the 2022 Vaclav-Havel Human Rights Prize, Vladimir Kara-Mourza, 41, is one of the last Russian opposition figures still in the country.

He has been charged in Russia with “

high treason

”, his lawyer announced last October, a crime punishable by very heavy prison sentences while he is already imprisoned for having criticized the offensive in Ukraine.

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The crime of "

high treason

" is punishable by twenty years in prison, but the sentence can be increased if the suspect is the subject of several charges.

In this case, Vladimir Kara-Mourza was already targeted by two other criminal cases.

In April 2022, he was arrested in Moscow after criticizing the offensive in Ukraine, particularly on social networks, and charged with "

spreading false information

" about the Russian army, a crime punishable by ten years in prison.

Subsequently, in August, during his imprisonment, he was accused of having worked for an organization designated as “

undesirable

” in Russia, by organizing in 2021 in Moscow a conference on political prisoners.

Poisonings

A former journalist, he was close to the opponent Boris Nemtsov, assassinated not far from the Kremlin in 2015, and also worked with the organization of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ex-oligarch who became a detractor in exile of Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Kara-Mourza claims to have been poisoned twice by Russian agents, in 2015 and 2017, as a result of his political activities.

The opponent has held Russian citizenship since birth and obtained British citizenship after moving to the UK with his mother when he was 15.

Source: lefigaro

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