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The Guardian view on attacks on lawyers: democracies must stand up for justice

Editorial: From Russia to the US, those who seek to uphold the law are coming under increasing pressure

The Guardian - UK

Russia Sentences Navalny Lawyers To Years Behind Bars

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

International Business Times

Navalny’s lawyers jailed as Putin’s crackdown on dissent reaches new heights

Alexei Navalny’s lawyers have been accused by Russian authorities of passing him information while he was in prison

The Independent UK

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Russia hands jail sentences to three Alexey Navalny lawyers

Lawyers face up to five years in jail on charges of links to Navalny’s groups, which the Kremlin deems ‘extremist’.

Al Jazeera

3 lawyers for the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are jailed by a Russian court

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times

The Independent UK

Navalny Lawyers Face Long Sentences In 'Extremism' Trial

A Russian court was to issue guilty verdicts Friday in an "extremism" trial against three lawyers who worked for Alexei Navalny, escalating a crackdown against the Kremlin critic's allies even after his death.

International Business Times

Russian authorities raid the homes of lawyers for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Allies of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny say Russian authorities have searched the homes of three lawyers representing him, with one of them detained

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Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny kneed in the groin by brutal prison guards

Alexei Navalny received a knee blow to the groin after refusing to enter his cell when an unwashed homeless man was put there by prison warders, his lawyer said

Daily Mirror

Russia's Navalny faces new charges after prison 'provocation' - lawyer

Russia's leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, faces the prospect of new criminal charges after in effect being forced to break the rules of the maximum security penal colony where he is being held, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 419 of the invasion

Putin visits commanders in occupied Kherson and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in Moscow court

The Guardian - AU

Russia’s Navalny ‘has mystery illness which may be slow poisoning’

Russia’s most prominent opposition leader is suffering ‘acute pain’, which supporters fear may be due to poison

The Independent UK

Putin foe Navalny says he's in solitary cell for 6 months

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says prison authorities have placed him in a one-person cell for the next six months

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