Answering BBC questions via written statements sent from a Moscow Detention Center. He writes that "the price of silence is unacceptable" in current Russia and "a form of being an accomplice" to President Vladimir Putin's policies.
"I do not think that I would have had a right to be involved in politics, call people to action, if I had remained in safety somewhere else," Kara-Murza wrote.
"The Kremlin wants to show Putin’s opponents as traitors...,but real traitors are those who are destroy the wealth, reputation, and future of our country for the sake of personal power, not those who stand against them," Kara-Murza said in his written answers.
Source: RadioLiberty, https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kara-murza-jailed-price-silence/32133741.html
