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Russian prisoner freed in swap urges UK not to let hundreds more ‘die off’

Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Keir Starmer that further exchanges are a matter of ‘life and death’

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident freed in the biggest prisoner swap since the cold war, has appealed to Keir Starmer during a meeting in Downing Street to not let hundreds of political prisoners in Russia and Belarus quietly “die off”.

Kara-Murza, who was released last month two years into a 25-year sentence after speaking out against the war in Ukraine, said he had told the prime minister on Friday that organising further such swaps was a matter of “life and death”.

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