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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer

‘More deaths are coming’: fears over fate of other Russian political prisoners after Navalny’s death

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed in 2022 for denouncing the Kremlin’s Ukraine offensive.
Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed in 2022 for denouncing the Kremlin’s Ukraine offensive. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Just days after the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison colony, human rights activists and journalists are warning that dozens of other political prisoners may be at risk of death from deliberate abuse of ill convicts in the Russian prison system.

Dmitry Muratov, the Nobel-prize winning editor of Novaya Gazeta, told the Observer that Navalny’s death had sent a clarion call for the world to save the Russian political prisoners who could die next.

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