Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Keir Starmer that further exchanges are a matter of ‘life and death’Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident freed in the biggest prisoner swap since the cold war, has appealed to Keir Starmer during a meeting in Downing Street to not let hundreds of political prisoners in Russia and Belarus quietly “die off”.Kara-Murza, who was released last month two years into a 25-year sentence after speaking out against the war in Ukraine, said he had told the prime minister on Friday that organising further such swaps was a matter of “life and death”. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-09-20 14:32:20
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Russian prisoner freed in swap urges UK not to let hundreds more ‘die off’
