Vladimir Kara-Murza’s lawyer reported a significant deterioration in his health in a pre-trial detention center

Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza (recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent) began to lose sensation in his feet during his stay in the punishment cell of the Vodnik pre-trial detention center, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said. He linked the deterioration of his client’s condition with poor conditions in the punishment cell and the consequences of two poisonings in 2015 and 2017.

“After several days in the punishment cell, Vladimir resumed numbness in his feet, which has not gone away at the moment. Vladimir Kara-Murza wrote a corresponding statement addressed to the head of SIZO-5, Dmitry Komnov, with a request to have an examination by a neurologist,” Mr. Prokhorov wrote on his Facebook (owned by the recognized extremist and banned Meta).

On February 22, Vadim Prokhorov announced that Vladimir Kara-Murza was sent to the punishment cell “Vodnik” for four days for lying on the “shkonka” after getting up.

The oppositionist has been in jail since April 2022 in the case of fakes about the army. Subsequently, he was also charged under the articles of treason and activities of an undesirable organization.

Vladimir Kara-Murza insists on the political nature of his persecution. In December 2022 he informedthat the SIZO management forbids him to communicate on the phone with children with whom he has not spoken since April 2022.

Andrey Sapozhnikov