Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza moved to prison hospital, wife says

CNN — Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician serving a lengthy jail sentence for treason, has been transferred to a prison hospital, his wife Evgenia said Friday.

Kara-Murza, 42, was moved from the maximum-security IK-6 penal colony in the Siberian city of Omsk to a prison hospital in another part of the region, she said in a series of posts on X. His lawyers have not been allowed to see him and have been given contradictory information by hospital staff, she added.

After arriving at IK-6 from Moscow, Kara-Murza’s lawyers were made to wait for five hours before being told they could not see him, she said. They were later told to come back the next day.

When the lawyers returned Friday morning, they were informed he was still being examined by doctors and had not yet been fully processed. They were told later Friday that they still could not see Kara-Murza, and that the correctional facility would be closed over the weekend, she said.