A BRIT political prisoner in Russia has been rushed from solitary confinement to a jail hospital, his wife revealed.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, is serving a 25-year prison sentence for “treason” in a hellhole Putin penal colony in Siberia.
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His health is known to be frail after twice being poisoned by Russian secret services.
His wife Evgenia said that his lawyers were refused access to the opposition politician who has Russian and UK passports.
Kara-Murza – also a journalist – was jailed in April 2023 in a “show trial” for denouncing Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine and calling for Western sanctions.
There are acute concerns that he will follow prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny by dying in his Russian prison.
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, and has repeatedly voiced concerns about his health in prison, said his wife.
Kara-Murza has been held in solitary confinement for more than 280 days in a row, and has not been allowed to communicate with other prisoners – or his family.
The cruel treatment in IK-6 maximum security penal colony in Omsk region is believed to be on Putin’s orders.
The British citizen was moved to regional hospital No. 11 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.
His lawyers were denied access to Kara-Murza on Friday, and told they would not be permitted to see him at the weekend.
Another jailed opposition politician Ilya Yashin, 41, has previously warned that Kara-Murza’s life is in jeopardy.
“The threat to his life is not only real, it is immense,” he said in February.
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