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Moscow – 17 March 2024
1. STILL of Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov ++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 2++
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Moscow – 10 July 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin:
“No, unfortunately, we do not have the opportunity to observe this situation (regarding opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza), in general we cannot… We have a corresponding agency, the Federal Penitentiary Service, which works with prisoners, with convicts. This is not our prerogative.”
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ARCHIVE: Moscow – 31 July 2023
3. Various of Vladimir Kara-Murza behind glass in a coutroom
4. Kara-Murza talking to lawyers
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Moscow – 14 December 2023
5. STILL of Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov ++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 6++
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Moscow – 10 July 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin:
(Journalist: “Lukashenko in Belarus recently announced that he would release some seriously ill political prisoners from the colony. And indeed, some were released. Does the Kremlin have similar plans, for example, in relation to Kara-Murza, who was diagnosed with polyneuropathy?”)
“No, at the moment the Kremlin has no such plans.”
STORYLINE:
The Kremlin has no plans to release seriously ill political prisoners such as opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.
Kara-Murza, 42, who was convicted of treason last year over public remarks harshly critical of the Kremlin was recently transferred to a prison hospital, where his attorneys have been unable to visit him since last week.
He has rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and likened the proceedings to the show trials under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
He is serving 25 years, the stiffest sentence for a Kremlin critic in modern Russia, in a penal colony in the Siberian city of Omsk.
Kara-Murza’s lawyers went to Penal Colony No. 6 on Thursday to visit him, but after hours of waiting were turned away by prison officials who said he had been transferred to a prison hospital, his wife Yevgenia Kara-Murza and lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said in an online statement Friday.
Kara-Murza’s wife and lawyers have regularly sounded the alarm about his deteriorating health.
In 2015 and 2017, Kara-Murza suffered two near-fatal poisonings and developed polyneuropathy, a condition that deadens the feeling in his limbs.
It has been slowly worsening behind bars, especially as Kara-Murza has spent months in solitary confinement — a practice that has become common for Kremlin critics and is widely viewed as designed to put additional pressure on them.
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