INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The UNs human rights chief condemned the continued jailing of a leading figure in Russias political opposition on Wednesday, requiring that
he face reasonable proceedings for his opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights, was concerned by continued detention of opposition politician and reporter Vladimir Kara-Murza because April 2022, his workplace
said in a tweet.The UN rights chief, it added, requires reasonable procedures and his right of defense to be supported
Kara-Murza, long a thorn in the side of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was imprisoned last year for knocking the Kremlins war in Ukraine
and has been charged with high treason, which might see him jailed for 2 decades.Before the treason charge was added in October, the
41-year-old currently had two criminal cases against him, which might possibly extend his sentence even more
When he was apprehended in April, he was put on the Russian foreign representative list-- a label similar to the opponent of individuals
branding that was used thoroughly throughout the Soviet Union to separate dissidents.And in August, he was implicated of participating in
the activities of an unfavorable company for arranging a conference in support of Russian political prisoners
The Western-educated activist and journalist was a close associate of both opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead near the
Kremlin in 2015, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a previous oligarch who is now a Putin critic.Kara-Murza, who was granted the Council of Europes
Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize last year, claims he was poisoned two times due to the fact that of his political activities, however he
continued to reside in Russia.Kara-Murza, a Russian resident by birth, has likewise been a British citizen after relocating to Britain with
his mother when he was 15.
