A BRIT political prisoner has vanished from a Russian jail and been sent to an “unknown location”.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, is serving a 25-year prison sentence for “treason” in a hellhole Putin penal colony in Siberia.
APRussian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is serving a 25-year prison sentence in a Siberian jail[/caption]
Kara-Murza’s health is known to be frail after twice being poisoned by Russian secret servicesAFP
The prison service, FSIN, said Kara-Murza was being transferred from the IK-6 penal colony in Omsk to another location – but it did not say where.
A number of Russian dissidents have vanished from Russian prisons in recent days.
Human rights activists say it’s a possible sign that a prisoner swap with the West may be close.
Earlier this month, Kara-Murza was rushed from solitary confinement to a jail hospital.
His health is known to be frail after twice being poisoned by Russian secret services.
Kara-Murza – also a journalist – was jailed in April 2023 in a “show trial” for denouncing Putin’s war against Ukraine and calling for Western sanctions.
Fears have been mounting that the dual Russian-British national could face the same fate as prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
Navalny, 47, was found dead in February amid suspicions he was murdered on Putin’s orders.
Kara-Murza is known to suffer from a nerve condition called polyneuropathy after surviving the two poisoning attempts.
He has repeatedly voiced concerns about his health in prison, his wife said.
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