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

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Russia has 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.

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were jailed from 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 years. They were arrested in 2023 on charges of involvement with extremist groups, as Navalny’s networks were deemed by authorities.