‘I live in constant fear that he will die’: Mother of jailed Putin critic says time running out to save him
In an urgent plea two years after the arrest of the British-Russian opposition leader, Elena Gordon calls on David Cameron to ‘please help save my son’
Vladimir Kara-Murza has spoken out against Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine (AFP/Getty)
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The mother of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader after Alexei Navalny says she lives in “constant fear” that her son, Vladimir Kara-Murza, will die in the Siberian prison in which he is currently jailed – while calling on the foreign secretary, David Cameron, to intervene and save his life.
Speaking on the eve of the second anniversary of Kara-Murza’s arrest on 11 April 2022, Elena Gordon says that her worries over her son have grown much more acute in the wake of the death of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, Navalny, almost two months ago. Navalny was also being held in a remote prison colony, in the Arctic, before he was declared dead by Russian authorities. Western leaders, including Lord Cameron, have lined up to say Putin is responsible for his death, while Navalny’s widow has said that the Russian president killed her husband.
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