On Friday, Russian security services searched three lawyers for imprisoned Kremlin opposition figure Alexei Navalny, in connection with an “extremism” case that carries severe penalties. He informed his team about this.
said an exiled aide to opposition leader Ivan Zhdanov
According to Zhdanov, Igor Sergunin has been arrested. “It is clear that these are measures to completely isolate Navalny,” he denounced, adding that the inspections are linked to an open case of “belonging to an extremist organization.”
Alexei Navalny was arrested in January 2021 upon his return to Russia after being poisoned. Since then, he has been sentenced to harsh sentences, most recently, in August, to 19 years in prison on charges of “extremism.”
His organizations were also banned in June 2021 on charges of “extremism” and most of their activists were forced to leave the country to avoid prosecution.
communication
Alexei Navalny, who is being held in a personnel camp not far from Moscow, said in late September that he would be transferred for a year to a cell with very strict conditions, where his interaction with the outside world would be more limited.
Navalny communicates mainly through letters he sends to his lawyers and then posts on his social networks, where he continues to condemn the attack in Ukraine in recent months and calls on Russians to “resist” the Kremlin.
“Lawyers do not do politics, they defend the accused,” Vyacheslav Ghemadi, head of the legal department of Navalny’s team, responded to X on Friday.
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