Three Navalny lawyers go on trial in Russia for ‘extremism’
by Agence France-Presse in Petushki from World news | The Guardian on (#6QNTT)
Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin accused of passing messages between jailed opposition leader and allies
Three lawyers who represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have gone on trial for extremism".
Navalny died in February in unclear circumstances in an Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence for leading an extremist" organisation.
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