From left, Russian dissidents Ilya Yashin, Yulia Navalnaya and Vladimir Kara-Murza hold hands after speaking during a demonstration in Berlin in November, 2024. All three are still active members of the anti-Putin opposition.

Three prominent Russian dissidents, including Alexey Navalny’s widow, have written to Prime Minister Mark Carney asking him to grant asylum to their colleagues at risk of being deported back to Russia by the Trump administration.

The letter , shared exclusively with The Globe and Mail, says “several hundred opposition-minded Russians” who entered the United States legally in hopes of receiving political asylum were instead being held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centres. Many of their claims are now being denied amid President Do

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