“Russia will be free. Tell everyone.”

04/18/2023

Irwin Cotler, Canada's former justice minister and the founder and chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights had this to say: "Thinking of my friend Vladimir Kara-Murza, a ray of light piercing through the darkest clouds of oppression. A hero of Russia, today he was convicted to 25 years in prison for telling the truth about Putin's crimes. His jailers already tried to kill him twice. We must secure his release."

Cotler pointed out a Canadian connection to Kara-Murza's persecution: He was twice poisoned on his return to Moscow after his testimony arguing for a Magnitsky law before Canadian parliamentary committees.

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