Whereabouts unknown: Concerns over captured Russian war enemy Kara-Mursa

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A few days ago he wanted to send a letter to his friend Kara-Mursa to the prison camp in Omsk, Siberia – but then received a response from the prison authorities that the opposition politician had been taken to another prison, Russian human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek wrote on Facebook on Monday. However, the prison system has not disclosed which camp Kara-Mursa is now being held in.

The wife of Kremlin opponent Yevgeniya Kara-Mursa also wrote that she did not know where her husband was. Kara-Mursa, who criticized Russia’s war against Ukraine, was sentenced to 25 years in prison last April on charges of high treason. It is the highest punishment ever imposed on an opposition figure in Russia.

The politician, who has survived poison attacks and is therefore in poor health, is considered one of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics and is internationally classified as a political prisoner.

It happens again and again that opponents of the regime who are imprisoned in the Russian prison system literally disappear for a period of time and lose contact with their relatives. In December, for example, there was no sign of life from opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who until then had been imprisoned in a camp not far from Moscow. Only after about two weeks did he appear again – in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic. Human rights activists criticize this practice as intimidation by the Russian penal system. (SDA)

Source: Blick