Three Navalny lawyers sentenced to years in Russian penal colony for extremist activity [View all]
Source: 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.
Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were arrested in October 2023 and added the following month to an official list of "terrorists and extremists".
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Human rights activists say the prosecution of lawyers who defend people speaking out against the authorities and the war in Ukraine crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under President Vladimir Putin.
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The lawyers were accused of enabling him to continue to function as the leader of what the government called an extremist group, even from behind bars, by passing his messages to the outside world.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/three-navalny-lawyers-jailed-belonging-extremist-organisation-mediazona-news-2025-01-17/
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