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Evgenia Kara-Murza, who is an advocacy director at the Free Russia Foundation civil organization, explained to DW that her husband was forced to endure grim prison conditions with little in the way of human contact.

For the past six months, her husband has been held in solitary confinement in a disciplinary cell in a "special regime prison colony" like the Polar Wolf colony where many believe Kara-Murza's fellow dissident Alexei Navalny was murdered.

"His bed is fixed to the wall from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day," said Evgenia Kara-Murza.

"He only has one backless stool which is the only piece of furniture in that cell. The only things he's allowed to keep in his cell are a mug, a toothbrush, a bar of soap, two towels, and two books."

Cambridge graduate Vladimir Kara-Murza -a joint UK-Russian citizen- had spent years campaigning for Western sanctions against the Kremlin.

However, the level of repression has dramatically worsened since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Last year, he was sentenced to 25 years on charges of treason for opposing the war in Ukraine.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The 43-year-old linguistics graduate explained to DW that her husband — a joint UK-Russian citizen — was forced to endure grim prison conditions with little in the way of human contact.

The 42-year-old suffers from a serious health problem —  polyneuropathy, which can lead to paralysis — which his wife and lawyers say are the result of two poisoning attempts orchestrated by Russia's FSB security service, the last of which was in 2017.

An independent investigation by German news magazine Der Spiegel, and the media outlets Bellingcat and The Insider, identified the FSB operatives who had followed Kara-Murza before both attacks.

It is for this reason, she explains, that the regime has brought back an entire arsenal of Soviet-style repressive techniques that include punitive psychiatry, and physical and sexual violence as well as Stalin-era prison terms.

And, according to a recent media investigation, there have been more politically motivated trials during Vladimir Putin's fourth term alone, than under Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev combined."

Telling the stories of those being held in prison for their political beliefs and actions allows the world to see how they are being treated, and any attempts to harm them would at least be made apparent.


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