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Russian court sentences three of Alexei Navalny's former lawyers to prison for alleged extremist activity

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In October 2023, Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin, and Alexei Liptser, three lawyers who defended Alexei Navalny, were arrested and accused of using their status to relay messages between Navalny and his colleagues. The lawyers were tried behind closed doors in Petushki, a location east of Moscow, and received prison sentences: Kobzev was sentenced to five and a half years, Liptser to five years, and Sergunin to three and a half years. The trio was also banned from working as lawyers for three years.

  1. GB
    David Lammy
    British Home Office
    1. Nearly a year on from Navalny's death, the Russian authorities continue to crush any dissent (...) The UK and our partners are clear: the Kremlin must release all political prisoners.
  2. RU
    Alexey Navalny
    Russia of the Future
    1. This is yet another example of the persecution of defence lawyers by the Kremlin in its effort to undermine human rights, subvert the rule of law and suppress dissent.
  3. RU
    Andrei Orlov
    1. But we are not going to stop just yet. We are going to keep moving.
  4. RU
    Andrei Grivtsov
    1. They're not allowed to eavesdrop on meetings between a lawyer and a client in a penal colony in principle - there's a direct legislative ban.
  5. RU
    Vadim Kobzev
    1. We are like a nation that goes around in circles.
    2. Eighty years have gone by and history has entered the latest loop.
  6. GB
    Amnesty International
    1. By targeting lawyers for merely doing their job, the Russian authorities are dismantling what remains of the right to legal defense and abusing what is a criminal justice system only in name.
  7. RU
    Yulia Navalnaya
    1. Vadim, Alexei and Igor are political prisoners and must be released immediately.

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sources

  1. 1.Le Monde
  2. 2.BBC
  3. 3.The Times
  4. 4.France 24
  5. 5.The Washington Post
  6. 6.CNN
  7. 7.CNA News
  8. 8.The Guardian
  9. 9.Bellingcat
  10. 10.Mediazona
  11. 11.Agence France-Presse
  12. 12.Nóvaya Gazeta

perspectives

  1. 1.Russian Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Russia-Ukraine War
  3. 3.US-Russia Relations
  4. 4.Russian Politics
  5. 5.Assassination

countries

  1. 1.GermanyDE
  2. 2.FranceFR
  3. 3.United KingdomGB
  4. 4.NetherlandsNL
  5. 5.Russian FederationRU
  6. 6.UkraineUA

organizations

  1. 1.Krem­linRU
  2. 2.Amnesty InternationalGB
  3. 3.Anti-Corruption Foundation
  4. 4.Rosfinmonitoring
  5. 5.Russian Federal Security ServiceRU
  6. 6.UIA International Lawyers Association

persons

  1. 1.Yulia NavalnayaRU
  2. 2.Alexei Liptser
  3. 3.Vadim KobzevRU
  4. 4.Igor Sergunin
  5. 5.Alexey NavalnyRU
  6. 6.Olga Mikhailova
  7. 7.Vladimir PutinRU
  8. 8.Alexander Fedulov
  9. 9.David LammyGB
  10. 10.Ivan ZhdanovRU
  11. 11.Andrei GrivtsovRU
  12. 12.Andrei OrlovRU

technicals

  1. 1.Arctic
  2. 2.Gulag
  3. 3.Soviet Union
  4. 4.IK-3 Arctic Penal Colony