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

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.

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 ...

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 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.

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

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

Alexei Navalny’s lawyers have been accused by Russian authorities of passing him information while he was in prison

Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim ... be released immediately.” Navalny, Putin’s most formidable opponent, was imprisoned upon his return to Russia in 2021. He arrived from Germany ...

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 ...

The 26-year-old Chechin, who moved to Georgia from Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine, has been an outspoken critic of the Russian government. He actively participated in anti-Putin protests and supported prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which resulted in at least one arrest in May 2021 in Russia.