Russia: Sentencing for Prominent Kremlin Critic
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Moscow City Court is scheduled to deliver a verdict on April 17, 2023 in the criminal trial against the prominent Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, Human Rights Watch said today. Russian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Kara-Murza, who has been arbitrarily detained for the past year, as well as other peaceful civic and political activists arbitrarily detained in Russia.

In March, Kara-Murza was unable to attend a court hearing due to bad health conditions, which his lawyer attributed to two severe poisonings he survived in 2015 and 2017. Journalists have reported that the poisonings were most likely orchestrated by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), and Russian authorities have never investigated either attempted killing.