INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Minutes later, opposition figure Ilya Yashin tweeted that Kara-Murza was detained on unknown charges and taken to a police station in
Kara-Murza was denied access to his lawyer, the independent police-monitoring website OVD-Info has reported.It later added that Kara-Murza
was kept in detention overnight on charges of defying police orders.A group of supporters gathered outside the police station said they
Kara-Murza says he was poisoned in Moscow in 2015 and 2017 as retaliation for his lobbying efforts to impose United States and EU sanctions
against Russian officials accused of human rights abuses
by the Bellingcat investigative outlet said Kara-Murza was likely tailed by the same Federal Security Service (FSB) chemical weapons squad
that allegedly poisoned jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and at least three other opposition figures
Lawmakers are currently seeking to pass legislation that would make calls for sanctions against Russia punishable by up to 10 years in jail
and threatening messages smeared on their doors
