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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Russia sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for sharing his messages from prison wth the outside world.