Putin trying to break my husband in harsher prison, says wife of jailed British-Russian opposition figure

The wife of jailed Russian-British opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza has accused the Kremlin of trying to “completely break his connection to the outside world” in the same way it is trying to do with Alexei Navalny.

Mr Kara-Murza had spent years speaking out against Russian president Vladimir Putin and has criticised the government’s crackdown on dissent, as well as the war in Ukraine. Criticism of Russia’s invasion is the reason he is currently imprisoned for 25 years on treason charges decried by the international community and likened to a Stalinist show trial.

Evgenia Kara-Murza was told on Monday that he had been moved in an “unknown direction” before it was discovered that he had been transferred to a new, harsher, Siberian