(21 May 2024)
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Moscow – 21 May 2024
1. Various of court exteriors
2. Wide of lawyer for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, Maria Eismont leaving court
3. Mid of journalists filming
4. Wide of Eismont approaching journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Maria Eismont, lawyer for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza:
"Today, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeal that Vladimir (Kara-Murza) and I filed against the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, in which we asked to recognize as illegal the inaction of the State Investigative Directorate in not conducting an investigation into Kara-Murza’s statement of crime."
6. Mid of journalists filming
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Maria Eismont, lawyer for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza:
"Vladimir Kara-Murza keeps asking, demanding – asking is a wrong word – he demands from us that we do not raise the issue of his health in the public domain, because he believes that he should be released immediately because he is not guilty, and he wants the emphasis to be placed on this."
8. Various of Eismont talking
STORYLINE:
A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of the imprisoned Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza who complained about the Investigative Committee’s inaction in investigating his suspected poisonings.
Kara-Murza, a journalist and top Kremlin foe who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in April.
He was found guilty of treason and denigrating the Russian military in Ukraine.
The charges against Kara-Murza stem from his March 2022 speech to the Arizona House of Representatives in which he denounced Russia’s "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia for years has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin, arresting countless protesters, cracking down on independent news media and adding inconvenient organizations to its register of “foreign agents.”
The hostility to opposition increased within days after the start of conflict with Ukraine in February 2022, when Russia adopted a law criminalizing the spreading of “false information” about its military.
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