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 for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years. Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were ...

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February ... February 16 will mark the first anniversary of the charismatic politician's death in an Arctic penal colony, which his supporters regard as ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s best-known opposition figure ... In December 2023, Navalny was moved from a penal colony in the Vladimir region east of Moscow to one above the Arctic Circle, where he died in February at the age of 47 under still-unexplained ...

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.

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were already in ... At the time of his death last year in an Arctic penal colony, Navalny was serving a 19-year prison term on several criminal ...

Three lawyers who represented Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced to prison for alleged extremist ties. Their conviction is seen as part of the Kremlin's broader crackdown on dissent.

Russia has sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to ... offensive - seeks to punish Navalny's associates since his unexplained death in an Arctic prison colony last February.

Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin were found guilty of participating in an ‘extremist organisation’.

Navalny’s lawyers Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin were found guilty of participating in an “extremist organisation” by a court in the town of Petushki

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