By By Micheal Chukwuebuka
THREE lawyers, in Russia, have been sentenced to several years in prison for defending Alexei Navalny, a late opposition leader.
Stonix News reports that the sentences come as Russia, in the midst of a massive crackdown during its Ukraine offensive, seeks to punish Navalny’s associates since his unexplained death in an Arctic prison colony last year February.
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Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, who were arrested in October 2023, were found guilty of participating in an “extremist organisation”, a court in the Russian town of Petushki, east of Moscow, ruled.
Kobzev, the most high-profile member of Navalny’s legal team, was given 5.5 years, while Liptser was handed five years and Sergunin 3.5 years.
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