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CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS – by Joe Van Langenberg With the arrest and subsequent jailing of Russia’s charismatic Opposition leader 41-year-old Vladimir Kara Murza, another nail has been deeply and inextricably driven into the coffin of sacrosanct democratic values. Kara Murza’s incarceration is tantamount to a callous, vindictive disregard for human rights According to his wife Evgenia (pictured alongside her husband), Vladimir Kara Murza had been initially arrested for 15 days and jailed, but the charges, which some political observers perceive to have been of a trumped-up nature, were swiftly upgraded to treason; in light of denouncing the war in Ukraine and allegedly denigrating the army. Kara Murza has never shied away from the fact, that he has always been one of President Putin’s most trenchant critics. And that needless to say, hasn’t sat well with Putin, whose authoritarian style of governance and unorthodox methodology, have incurred the wrath ...