An imprisoned Russian opposition figure who has dual British nationality has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and placed in a tiny “punishment cell”, his lawyer has said.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, was convicted of treason earlier this year for publicly denouncing Russia’s war in Ukraine and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
On Thursday, he arrived at IK-6 – a maximum security penal colony in the Siberian city of Omsk – his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said.
Mr Kara-Murza, a journalist and activist, was an associate of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was killed near the Kremlin in 2015.
He survived poisonings in 2015 and 2017 that he blamed on the Kremlin. Russian officials have denied responsibility.
Mr Kara-Murza was jailed in April 2022 after rejecting the charges against him and calling them punishment for standing up to Vladimir Putin.
And in July, the British government sanctioned six people following the “unjustifiable” decision to reject an appeal by the British-Russian dissident.
Mr Prokhorov said the transfer from a detention centre in Moscow, where Mr Kara-Murza was being held pending further trial and appeals, took less than three weeks.
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