Kara-Murza's lawyer was not allowed to see him for the second day in a row

The politician's lawyer Vladimir Kara-Murza was not allowed to see his client in the penal colony in Omsk for the second day in a row. The lawyer told Agency about this. Kara-Murza is one of the potential candidates for exchange.

Details . The lawyer visited his client on Tuesday, but the colony refused to let him meet with Kara-Murza, explaining that the prisoner was undergoing examination. He was offered to come the next day. According to the lawyer, this is not the first time. However, on Wednesday, when the lawyer came to the colony again, he was refused a meeting with the politician under the same pretext.

• According to the lawyer, a trial involving Kara-Murza is scheduled for Thursday. The defense attorney asked the court where Kara-Murza is now. "The court is assuring that he is there. It's hard to believe," he said. "The story is truly strange and doesn't seem like the truth."
• The lawyer last saw the politician last Thursday.

Context . Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security penal colony under articles on disseminating "fakes" about the army, participating in the activities of an undesirable organization, and treason. His wife called for an exchange of political prisoners back in March. Kara-Murza is a citizen of Russia and Great Britain.

• Over the past two days, it has become known that seven political prisoners have disappeared from colonies and pretrial detention centers: Oleg Orlov, Sasha Skochilenko, Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Ilya Yashin, Kevin Lik and Daniil Krinari. Human rights activists believe that this could be preparation for an exchange.
• Journalist Evag Gershkovich and Paul Whelan are also considered candidates for exchange from the Russian side. Olga Karlova, the lawyer for Whelan, who was convicted in Russia in a spy case, said on Wednesday that she does not know whether her client is still in the Mordovian penal colony. Gershkovich's lawyer declined to comment the day before.
• There are at least two Russian citizens in the United States convicted of cybercrime who could be included in the swap, Vladimir Dunayev and Roman Seleznev, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Another candidate for the swap could be Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a life sentence in Germany for the murder of former Chechen warlord Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Moscow has repeatedly signaled that it is interested in such a swap.