Foreign Office says it will not trade Putin opponent for spies in jail in Britain, despite fears for his life after Navalny’s death
A Foreign Office minister has ruled out a prisoner swap for the imprisoned Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British citizen, who MPs warned could be next after the death of Alexei Navalny.
Kara-Murza’s wife was now adamant that she wanted everything to be done to get her her husband out of Russia, said the Tory backbencher Bob Seely, who urged the government to countenance swapping imprisoned spies for the pro-democracy activist who was now the most high-profile Russian political prisoner.
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