Jail or exile

Apr 26 2023

Last week Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian opposition politician and activist, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Alexei Navalny is already in jail serving 11 and half years, and now he says that he is being investigated on terrorism charges, which could result in a sentence that will keep him in prison beyond 2050.

Yevgeny Roizman, the former Yekaterinburg mayor, has gone on trial, and faces charges of discrediting Russia's armed forces. He chose to stay in Russia, and is most likely facing five years in jail.

Ilya Yashin is serving eight-and-a-half years on a charge of spreading false news about the army, and lost his appeal on Wednesday.

Vadim Prokhorov, a lawyer for Navalny, Yashin and Kara-Murza, decided to leave Russia after receiving "a warning through one politician that there was interest from at least one deputy prosecutor-general who was overseeing our case".

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