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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.

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to years in a Russian penal colony. Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were found guilty by a Russian ...

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 ...

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 ...