State prosecutors cited a speech the 41-year-old made to the Arizona House of Representatives where he said that President Putin was, 'dropping cluster bombs on residential areas, mothers' homes, hospitals and schools'.
The judge who presided over Kara-Murza's trial, Sergei Podoprigorov, has been sanctioned by the UK and other Western nations under so-called"Magnitsky legislation", which targets Russian officials who have been involved or presided over human rights abuses.The"Magnitsky Act" in the United States in 2021 was named after a lawyer called Sergei Magnitsky who was tortured to death in a Russian prison after exposing tax fraud by government officials.
Many will be unfamiliar with his name, a curse of many liberal politicians in Russia who struggle to make themselves heard in a country with few democratic traditions. The 41-year-old was a key figure in the"People's Freedom Party" - or PARNAS - which tried to build a coalition and field candidates in a number of regional and national elections.
However, party officials were routinely followed and harassed, denied access to state media and prevented from entering candidates in individual constituencies. Speaking at the PARNAS launch event before the 2016 parliamentary elections, Kara-Murza told Sky News:"I think the best thing this regime would like us to do is to give and run away and we are not going to give them that pleasure."
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