WASHINGTON – Today, April 9, at 10:00am ET, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will host a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers, human rights groups, and policy organizations to call for the immediate release of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition leader and journalist who is being unjustly imprisoned by the Russian government for opposing the Putin regime’s attacks on democracy and unprovoked war against Ukraine. The event comes on the eve of the two-year anniversary of his imprisonment on April 11, 2022. Select speakers will read excerpts of personal letters of support and hope written to Kara-Murza to be transmitted to his prison.
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Senate Foreign Relations Event to Call for Release of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Others Unjustly Imprisoned in Russia
10:00 a.m. ET -11:30am ET
U.S. Senate, Dirksen Office Building, SD-419
- Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) – Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Evgenia Kara-Murza – Wife of Kara-Murza and Human Rights Advocate
- Damon Wilson – President and CEO, National Endowment for Democracy
- Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) – Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
- Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
- Representative Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
- Representative Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia to the United States, Māris Selga
- Deputy Ambassador James Roscoe MVO at the British Embassy in Washington
- Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Sonata Coulter
Representatives from:
- McCain Institute
- Free Russia Foundation
- Freedom House
- Center for European Policy Analysis
- The Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights
- Global Justice Magnitsky Campaign
- Human Rights Foundation
- The Ronald Reagan Institute
- The George W. Bush Institute
- Human Rights First
