Russian officials have denied responsibility. He survived poisonings in 20 that he blamed on the Kremlin. Mr Kara-Murza, a journalist and activist, was an associate of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was killed near the Kremlin in 2015. On Thursday, he arrived at IK-6 - a maximum security penal colony in the Siberian city of Omsk - his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said. Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42, was convicted of treason earlier this year for publicly denouncing Russia's war in Ukraine and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Nagorno-Karabakh's final status remains an open question, however, and is at the centre of talks between the sides that began on Thursday in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh.Īn imprisoned Russian opposition figure who has dual British nationality has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Siberia and placed in a tiny "punishment cell", his lawyer has said. On Tuesday, Azerbaijan launched heavy artillery fire against ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, who conceded to demands to lay down their arms that next day.
In December, Azerbaijan imposed a blockade of the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, alleging that the Armenian government was using the road for mineral extraction and illicit weapons shipments to the province's separatist forces.Īrmenia charged that the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh's approximately 120,000 people.Īzerbaijan rejected the accusation, arguing the region could receive supplies through the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam - a solution long resisted by Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, who called it a strategy for Azerbaijan to gain control of the region. Parts of Nagorno-Karabakh that were not retaken by Azerbaijan remained under the control of the separatist authorities.
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More are expected to follow after a 10-month blockade and a military offensive this month that resulted in Azerbaijan reclaiming full control of the breakaway region.įor context: Nagorno-Karabakh is located in Azerbaijan and came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by the Armenian military, in separatist fighting that ended in 1994.ĭuring a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back parts of Nagorno-Karabakh along with territory surrounding the region that Armenian forces had claimed during the earlier conflict.Ī Russia-brokered armistice ended the war, and a contingent of about 2,000 Russian peacekeepers was sent to the region to monitor it. Former ADF staffers now working for Sessions are believed to have helped in the creation of this task force.Russian peacekeepers escorted 311 refugees from Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, Russia's defence ministry has said. On July 30, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a so-called Religious Liberty Task Force, he mentioned Jack Phillips three times in his speech before Phillips spoke at the event. In January, Sara Hellwege, an ADF client, praised ADF as she spoke at the Department of Health and Human Services' announcement that it would attempt to allow doctors' morality to determine which patients will be treated. The group also appears to have close ties to the Trump administration, and their clients frequently speak at government events about ADF-style religious freedom.
If anyone can claim a moral objection to someone else, it's hard to see how civil rights laws would be enforceable at all. These cases appear minor, but they could add up to a civil rights crisis - a Supreme Court ruling that anti-discrimination laws cannot be enforced if someone claims a religious or moral objection. These cases include a florist that refuses same-sex couples, a print shop that won't print t-shirts for Pride, and a video company that plans to expand into weddings but wants to announce it will only work for straight couples. ADF is using this army to find and push cases toward the Supreme Court to chip away at civil rights laws.
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