Navalny’s lawyers jailed as Putin’s crackdown on dissent reaches new heights - Alexei Navalny’s lawyers were accused by Russian authorities of passing him information while he was in prison

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were jailed for between three and a half to five years by a court in the town of Petushki, about 60 miles east of Moscow

Navalny started working on the manuscript in Germany while recuperating from the poisoning that was meant to kill him. The book begins with a matter-of-fact but terrifying description of his near-death in August 2020 (“Then I died.

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.

Putin is doing this to scare you. He wants you to be afraid even to mention Alexei and gradually forget his name’

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced by a Russian court for alleged extremist activity. The closed-door trial has drawn criticism for repressing dissent. Human rights groups and the U.

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

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Prosecutors accused the lawyers of "using their status" to give letters written by Navalny during his time in prison to his associates, enabling him to continue to lead an "extremist organisation", CNN reported, citing independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.

Russia sentenced three of Navalny’s lawyers to prison for sharing his messages, sparking international outrage.