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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Christopher McKeon

EXPLAINED: Mps demand to cut through whitehall bureaucracy and get jailed british russian dissident home - The Real Truth

AP

Senior MPs have backed calls for the Foreign Office to do more to help a British citizen jailed for 25 years in Russia for opposing the invasion of Ukraine.

British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in April after he had been convicted of high treason by a Moscow court.

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