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

Lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are sentenced in a Kremlin crackdown on dissent at levels unseen since Soviet times.

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.

The trio were arrested as authorities intensified pressure on the jailed Kremlin critic, who died last February.

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 ...

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.

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

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP she regretted not finding the right words to stop him returning to

Russia has 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.

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev ... been accused of extremism in absentia. Another Navalny lawyer, Aleksandr Fedulov, also fled Russia after their three colleagues were detained.

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were jailed from 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 years. They were arrested in 2023 on charges of involvement with extremist groups, as Navalny’s networks were deemed by authorities.

January 17, is remembered in history as the day Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny set foot in Moscow after five months in Germany followed by his arrest at the Sheremetyevo Airport in 2021. In 1991,