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Andrew Osborn and Tatiana Gomozova

Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza jailed for 25 years in Russia treason case

Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been jailed for a quarter of a century by a Moscow court, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after it found him guilty of treason and other offences he denied.

Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and an opposition politician who holds Russian and British passports, spent years speaking out against President Vladimir Putin and lobbied Western governments to impose sanctions on Russia and individual Russians for purported human rights violations.

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