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A Russian court on Monday convicted top opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. of treason for publicly denouncing Moscows war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 25 years in prison as part of the Kremlins relentless crackdo stanley mugs wn on critics of the invasion. Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is escorted to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia. AP file photo T stanley deutschland he political activist and journalist, who twice survived poisonings he blamed on Russian authorities, has rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to President Vladimir Putin and likened the proceedings to the show trials under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Human rights organizations and Western governments denounced the verdict and demanded his release. Amnesty International declared the 41-year-old to be a prisoner of conscience. Also Read: This Vladimir Putin ally country may have helped Ukraine in weapons supplyKara-Murza reacted calmly as the judge read the verdict and sentence in a quick monotone. His lawyer, Maria Eismont, later quoted him as telling her: My self-esteem has risen: I realized that I have done everything right. Twenty-five years is the highest appraisal that I could get for doing what I did and what I believed in, as a citizen, a patriot and a politic stanley cups ian. Kara-Murzas wife, Evgenia, who lives in the U.S. with their three children, tweeted after the verdict: A quarter of a century is an A for your courage, consistency and honesty in your years-long work. Odts China s Covid-19 cases drop to one; no cases reported in epicentre Hubei for almost a month
President Xi Jinping on Thursday warned that enemies will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel if they attempt to bully or influence China in his bellicose speech delivered in Beijing to mark 100 years of the ruling Communist Party of China CPC . President Xi Jinping waves next to Premier Li Keqiang left and former president Hu Jintao at the end of the event marking the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China, on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on Thursday. REUTERS In an hour-long address at the Tiananmen Square to mark the partys centenary, Xi, pledged to build up Chinas military and said Beijing was stanley cup committed to the reunification of Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China considers a breakaway region. Considered to be Chinas most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, Xi is the general secretary of the CPC and head of the Central Military Commission. Referring to the situation in Hong Kong, Xi, wearing Mao-style gray suit and flanked by past and current CPC leadership, said social stability would be ensured there while protecting Chinas security and sovereignty. Xis speech comes in the backdrop of mounting international criticism against China on alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet, an ongoing crackdown in Hong Kong and what western countries perceive as Beijings deliberate obfuscation of the Covid-19 pandemics o stanley usa rigin. ASSERTIVE CHINA At the same time, China has also been suc stanley cup price cessful in controlling t
A Russian court on Monday convicted top opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. of treason for publicly denouncing Moscows war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 25 years in prison as part of the Kremlins relentless crackdo stanley mugs wn on critics of the invasion. Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is escorted to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia. AP file photo T stanley deutschland he political activist and journalist, who twice survived poisonings he blamed on Russian authorities, has rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to President Vladimir Putin and likened the proceedings to the show trials under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Human rights organizations and Western governments denounced the verdict and demanded his release. Amnesty International declared the 41-year-old to be a prisoner of conscience. Also Read: This Vladimir Putin ally country may have helped Ukraine in weapons supplyKara-Murza reacted calmly as the judge read the verdict and sentence in a quick monotone. His lawyer, Maria Eismont, later quoted him as telling her: My self-esteem has risen: I realized that I have done everything right. Twenty-five years is the highest appraisal that I could get for doing what I did and what I believed in, as a citizen, a patriot and a politic stanley cups ian. Kara-Murzas wife, Evgenia, who lives in the U.S. with their three children, tweeted after the verdict: A quarter of a century is an A for your courage, consistency and honesty in your years-long work. Odts China s Covid-19 cases drop to one; no cases reported in epicentre Hubei for almost a month
President Xi Jinping on Thursday warned that enemies will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel if they attempt to bully or influence China in his bellicose speech delivered in Beijing to mark 100 years of the ruling Communist Party of China CPC . President Xi Jinping waves next to Premier Li Keqiang left and former president Hu Jintao at the end of the event marking the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China, on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on Thursday. REUTERS In an hour-long address at the Tiananmen Square to mark the partys centenary, Xi, pledged to build up Chinas military and said Beijing was stanley cup committed to the reunification of Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China considers a breakaway region. Considered to be Chinas most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, Xi is the general secretary of the CPC and head of the Central Military Commission. Referring to the situation in Hong Kong, Xi, wearing Mao-style gray suit and flanked by past and current CPC leadership, said social stability would be ensured there while protecting Chinas security and sovereignty. Xis speech comes in the backdrop of mounting international criticism against China on alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet, an ongoing crackdown in Hong Kong and what western countries perceive as Beijings deliberate obfuscation of the Covid-19 pandemics o stanley usa rigin. ASSERTIVE CHINA At the same time, China has also been suc stanley cup price cessful in controlling t
