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Navalny lawyer flees Russia, leaving opposition leader alone in court
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/17/navalny-lawyers-court-hearing-arrest/
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RIGA, Latvia — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared at a court hearing without legal representation Tuesday after three of his lawyers were arrested on extremism charges and two others left the country.
Officials claimed this was due to a power outage affecting the entire village of Melekhovo, where the prison is located in Vladimir region, about 150 miles east of Moscow.
Russia’s detention of three lawyers pending trial on extremism charges has severed even that connection, in what Navalny’s team argues is a concerted state effort to crush his will and physically destroy him.
At Tuesday’s court session, Navalny described the arrest of the three lawyers, Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, as “a spasm of this disgusting government,” and called on Russians to continue their opposition to President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party.
“The arrest of our colleagues who defended Navalny has made significant adjustments to the work of the defense lawyers who remain at large,” Fedulov posted, adding that he was forced to leave Russia due to the “current situation.”
As bad as things are for Navalny, Yarmysh said they are about to get worse, when he is transferred to the harshest of Russian jails, a special regime prison colony, reserved for the worst offenders, with restricted visits, parcels and exercise.
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