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Prison Terms for Navalny’s Russian Defense Lawyers

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par Human Rights Watch

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. Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser, and Igor Sergunin received prison terms ranging from three and half to five and a half years, in retaliation for providing legal services to Navalny. Navalny, whom Russian authorities deemed a political threat, died suddenly, last year, in a prison colony in the far north. He was serving a 19-year sentence imposed for a litany of spurious and politically motivated…

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