Three lawyers for the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty on Friday of belonging to an extremist group by a Russian court and sentenced to between 3 1/2 and 5 1/2 years, the Mediazona news outlet reported.
Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arrested in October 2023 and added the following month to an official list of “terrorists and extremists”.
Navalny, who died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony in February last year,