Lalrp.org: 
Kara-Murza pleaded harmless because the trial opened behind closed doorways on the Moscow Metropolis Court docket. If convicted, he faces a doable jail sentence of as much as 25 years.
His lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov, described the case as “unconditionally political.”
“In actual fact, that is prosecution for criticism,” he mentioned, including that the authorities have apparently tried to fast-track the trial.
Kara-Murza has been in jail since in April on prices of spreading “false info” concerning the Russian army stemming from his March 15 speech to the Arizona Home of Representatives during which he denounced Russia’s army motion in Ukraine. The investigators added the costs of treason in opposition to him whereas he was in custody.
Russia adopted a regulation criminalizing spreading “false info” about its army shortly after Russian troops rolled into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Authorities have used the regulation to stifle criticism of what the Kremlin calls “a particular army operation.”
Kara-Murza, a journalist, was an affiliate of opposition chief Boris Nemtsov, who was killed close to the Kremlin in 2015. He himself survived poisonings in 2015 and 2017 that he blamed on the Kremlin. Russian officers have denied duty.
