Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was jailed after criticising President Vladimir Putin and the warfare in Ukraine, has been taken to a jail hospital, his spouse says.
Evgenia Kara-Murza mentioned on X that officers refused to touch upon his situation when his attorneys tried to go to him.
Final 12 months Mr Kara-Murza, a twin Russian-British citizen, was jailed and transferred to a jail colony in Siberia.
His spouse says he suffers from a neurological situation on account of poisonings.
Mr Kara-Murza, 42, has accused Russian authorities of making an attempt to poison him in 2015 and 2017.
On Friday, attorneys for the dissident arrived on the Omsk jail colony however weren’t advised the place he was for 5 hours after which not permitted to go to him in hospital, Evgenia Kara-Murza says.
The outspoken critic of the Kremlin was arrested in April 2022.
In 2023 he was sentenced to 25 years for spreading “false” details about the Russian military and being affiliated with an “undesirable organisation”.
He has criticised President Vladimir Putin over the Russian authorities’s crackdown on dissent and the warfare in Ukraine.
He had additionally performed a key position in persuading Western governments to sanction Russian officers for human rights abuses and corruption.
The US state division has described Mr Kara-Murza as “one more goal of the Russian authorities’s escalating marketing campaign of repression”.
Mr Kara-Murza, who comes from a Soviet dissident household, acquired British citizenship when he moved to the UK as a teen along with his mom.
His spouse has expressed concern over his wellbeing whereas in jail, notably following the dying of opposition chief Alexei Navalny earlier this 12 months.
