Arrested in 2023, the lawyers were charged with extremism for relaying messages from Alexei Navalny while he was in prison before his death.

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin's crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times.

Russia has sentenced three lawyers of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison terms for transmitting his messages from prison to the outside world.

Three lawyers for deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were on Friday sentenced to prison for “being part of an extremist group,” a Russian court ruled. Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, who have been in pre-trial detention since October 2023, are accused of passing Navalny’s prison messages to the outside world.

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were ... prisoners” who “must be released immediately.” Navalny, Putin’s most formidable opponent, was imprisoned upon his return to Russia in 2021. He arrived from Germany, where he had received ...

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court's sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision

The trio are applauded in court as they are sentenced for their role in assisting Alexei Navalny - after a prosecution which rights groups say crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under Putin.

PETUSHKI, Russia (AP) — Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that ...

MOSCOW: Russia on Friday (Jan 17) sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the ...

Three lawyers for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic ... the risks of having any ties to the opposition in Russia, even in a professional lawyer-client relationship.

By failing to address Russian imperialism and continuing to claim equal victimhood to Ukraine, Navalny promoted an imperialist discourse.