{"id":1833431,"date":"2023-02-03T05:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833431"},"modified":"2023-02-03T05:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:05:34","slug":"putins-political-prisoner-refuses-to-stay-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-political-prisoner-refuses-to-stay-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Political Prisoner Refuses to Stay Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputins-political-prisoner-refuses-to-stay-silent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Vladimir Kara-Murza had already been poisoned twice by the time I met him. Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s agents had tried to kill the 41-year-old journalist, documentarian, and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in 2015 and again in 2017. Kara-Murza was placed in a medically induced stupor after the second poisoning. It lasted for more than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I was captivated and scared to meet the animated, fearless, charming, and eloquent married father of three. He shared his life, parenting, as well as mutual acquaintances. He stated that he enjoyed the <em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em>. Having admired from a distance his courageous stand for freedom, I marveled at Kara-Murza\u2019s ability to connect with strangers, his generosity, his humor. I wasn&#8217;t the only one. There are many people around the world who share my gratitude and hope for his future in a democratic Russia. Senator John McCain (R.-Ariz.) was one such person. He asked Kara-Murza, before his death, to be a pallbearer at the September 2018 funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Kara-Murza now resides in prison. For criticizing the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Kara-Murza was taken into custody in Moscow on April 11, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccaininstitute.org\/resources\/in-the-news\/statement-on-vladimir-kara-murza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speech<\/a> Arizona House of Representatives. He was sent to jail for 15 days. Subsequently, he was accused of spreading false information about Putin\u2019s army and remained in captivity. The Russian authorities added an additional charge for working with an accomplice last August. &#8220;undesirable&#8221;\u2014that is, pro-democracy\u2014nongovernmental organization. Kara-Murza\u2019s detention continued. In October last year, Kara-Murza was charged with high treason. Maximum sentence: 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be clear about what is going on here. Kara-Murza does not belong to any oligarch. He is not a foreign agent. He is also not a saboteur. He is both a writer and filmmaker, who has British and Russian passports. He\u2019s an activist who committed the &#8220;crime&#8221;\u2014one flinches at calling it that\u2014of stating his views in public on a matter of global concern. Russia&#8217;s current law makes it an enemy to voice a dissident opinion.<\/p>\n<p>For pointing out the illegality and barbarism of Putin\u2019s unprovoked aggression against the sovereign nation of Ukraine, Kara-Murza joined the ranks of at least <a href=\"https:\/\/ovdinfo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19,535<\/a> Russian Federation citizens who were detained because they protested the war. Their defiance reflects a universal desire to freedom, religious and civil liberty, self-government, and the rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time I met Vladimir Kara-Murza, he had been poisoned twice. Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s agents had tried to kill the 41-year-old journalist, documentarian, and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in 2015 and again in 2017. The second poisoning was so severe that doctors put Kara-Murza into a medically induced coma. It lasted more than two weeks.<br \/>\nThe post Putin\u2019s Political Prisoner Refuses to Stay Silent appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":1833434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9259,3753,4375,9594,3768,6680],"class_list":["post-1833431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-silent","tag-political","tag-prisoner","tag-putins","tag-refuses","tag-stay"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}