Jailed Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza is the winner of this year’s Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said on Monday.
“It takes incredible courage in today’s Russia to stand against the power in place. Today, Mr Kara-Murza is showing this courage, from his prison cell,” PACE president Tiny Kox said.
Kara-Murza, long bitterly critical of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed in April for denouncing the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and has now been charged with high treason which could see him imprisoned for two decades.
The prize was named after the former Czech dissident-turned-president.
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