Brit prisoner jailed by Putin VANISHES from penal colony in Siberia

A BRIT political prisoner has vanished from a Russian jail and sent to an “unknown location”.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, is serving a 25-year prison sentence for “treason” in a hellhole Putin penal colony in Siberia.

The prison service, FSIN, said Kara-Murza was being transferred from the IK-6 penal colony in Omsk, Siberia to another location – but it did not say where.

A number of Russian dissidents have vanished from Russian prisons in recent days.

Human rights activists say it’s a possible sign that a prisoner swap with the West may be close. 

Earlier this month, Kara-Murza was rushed from solitary confinement to a jail hospital.

His health is known to be frail after twice being poisoned by Russian secret services.

Kara-Murza – also a journalist – was jailed in April 2023  in a “show trial” for denouncing Putin’s war against Ukraine and calling for Western sanctions. 

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