Opinion by Pedro Pizano: How Vladimir Kara-Murza’s case exposes the rot at the heart of Russia
Imagine the situation: You accuse a cohort of law-enforcement officials of corruption and play a leading role in efforts to make them accountable. Later on, when you criticize the government, you find yourself under arrest — and one of the men you exposed is in charge of your prison.that prevent just this sort of thing from happening. You’re not supposed to end up in a detention facility run by a warden you’ve publicly accused of malfeasance.
This is not the only miscarriage of justice in the case of Kara-Murza, who is a contributing columnist for The Post. He is currently on trial on treason charges — inspired in part by his harsh criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine — after spending a year in pretrial detention.
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