Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser, who once represented the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, were all jailed for several years each by a court in the town of Petushki

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

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 Moscow in 2021.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Russia's financial watchdog has rejected a request to remove late opposition leader Alexei Navalny from its list of "terrorists and extremists" even though he is dead, his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on Friday.

A Russian court will next week issue verdicts against three of Alexei Navalny's former lawyers, being tried for "extremism" as part of an escalating crackdown on the Kremlin critic's allies even after his death.