Russian state prosecutors requested a 25-year prison sentence for Kara-Murza, who they accuse of treason and of discrediting the Russian military
Facing up to a quarter of a century in jail on treason charges he denies, Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza told a Moscow court on Monday his trial recalled one of Josef Stalin’s show trials in the 1930s and said he had done nothing wrong.
His trial, which will culminate in a verdict on April 17, is being held behind closed doors, but a copy of his final speech to the court on Monday was made available by his wife and lawyer. Shortly after sending tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February last year, Russia introduced sweeping wartime censorship laws which have been used to silence dissenting voices across society.
Earlier on Monday, dozens of Russian journalists and rights activists – many of whom have fled the country – called on the authorities to free Kara-Murza, saying the charges against him were baseless and politically-motivated.
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