Vladimir Kara-Murza: How I survived 11 months of torture in Putin’s gulag

A British-Russian dissident and high-profile opponent of Vladimir Putin, freed in the most high-profile prison swap since the end of the Cold War, has described the brutal treatment he suffered during 11 months of solitary confinement in Siberia.

Vladimir Kara-Murza spent 23-and-a-half hours a day in a cell the size of a small cupboard as part of his 25-year sentence for speaking out against Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

The 43-year-old, who served two and half years of his total sentence before being released in August, spoke of talking to walls and willing away the days “no longer understanding what’s real and what’s imaginary”.

Read the exclusive interview here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-kara-murza-putin-russia-ukraine-b2615807.html