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

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

Navalny died suddenly last February in an Arctic penal colony where he was serving sentences totalling more than 30 years on a variety of charges he rejected as attempts to silence his criticism of President Vladimir Putin. He was 47.

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.

Last week, a Russian court sentenced three lawyers who had represented the country’s leading opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, to imprisonment on bogus extremism charges following a sham trial.

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

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.

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

Three lawyers for deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were on Friday sentenced to prison for “being part of an extremist group,” a Russian court ruled. Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, who have been in pre-trial detention since October 2023, are accused of passing Navalny’s prison messages to the outside world.

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

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court's sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision