The international community, including the EU, the Council of Europe and the United Nations, on Monday 17 April denounced the sentencing of Russian political opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in a harsh prison colony by a Moscow court for ‘high treason’, spreading ‘false information’ about the Russian military and working illegally for an ‘undesirable’ organisation, Open Russia.
This “politically motivated” and “outrageously harsh” decision demonstrates “once...