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WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday Russia the arrest, prosecution or violence of opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza hand imposed sanctions against six Russians it claimed to be. Ukraine.
Kara-Murza April month Russia by imprisonment and declared a “foreign agent”. He is currently being held on February 24, 2022, on suspicion of spreading false information about the armed forces under new laws passed eight days after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
“The United States reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kara-Murza and is committed to ensuring that Vladimir Putin’s efforts to silence critics do not succeed,” – USA State Secretary Antony Blinken said in a statement.
Sanctions announced by the Treasury and State Departments USARussia is targeting Yelena Anatolievna Lenska, Andrey Andreevich Zadachin, and Danila Yurievich Mikheev for serious human rights violations under the Global Magnitsky Act.
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The Treasury Department said that Russia against Kara-Murza for a speech by special investigator Zadachin in the Arizona House of Representatives crime ordered the opening of the case.
Later in Moscow judge Lenskaya decided to detain Kara-Murza and Mikheev attended as an expert witness for the Russian government, watched the video of the speech and led to the indictment of the opposition leader report it was reported that it was presented. .
Both Britainwho also has Russian citizenship and 2018-in USA Kara-Murza, who attended the funeral of Senator John McCain, was a close aide of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in the center of Moscow in 2015.
Twice, in 2015 and 2017, Kara-Murza suddenly fell ill after being poisoned by Russian security services, falling into a coma on both occasions and eventually recovering. Moscow denied its involvement.
The Department of the Treasury said that Kara-Murza is the United States, Canada, European Union and called for the UK to use Magnitsky-style sanctions to target human rights abusers and corruption in Russia.
US Department of State also imposed visa restrictions on Lenska and Zadachi and did not allow them and their immediate families to enter the United States.
In this regard, the State Department ordered the arrest of Kara-Murza, the Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia, Oleg Mikhailovich Sviridenko. judge Diana Igorevna Mishchenko and Kara-Murza did not satisfy their complaint judge Ilya Pavlovich imposed sanctions on Kozlov. imprisonment the department said about the decision.
Reporting by Katharine Jackson; Added by Rami Ayyub report; Edited by Tim Ahmann and Angus MacSwan
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2023-03-03 21:52:55
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