A Russian court said the lawyers for Aleksei Navalny, the country’s top opposition figure before his death in a penal colony ...

The trio are applauded in court as they are sentenced for their role in assisting Alexei Navalny - after a prosecution which ...

LONDON - 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.

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.

In December 2023, Navalny was moved from a penal colony in the Vladimir region east of Moscow to one above the Arctic Circle, ...

The three attorneys have been found guilty of helping the opposition figure lead an extremist group from behind bars A ...

Olga Mikhailova, who defended Navalny for 16 years, said his return to Russia sparked ... February 16 will mark the first ...

At the time of his death last year in an Arctic penal colony, Navalny was serving a 19-year prison term on several criminal convictions, including extremism. The independent Russian newspaper ...

Navalny, who died suddenly aged 47 in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he said were trumped up by the authorities to ...