The Moscow Basmanny Court sent to arrest lawyer Igor Sergunin, who defended Alexei Navalny (who is on the list of terrorists and extremists). RIA News.
“The court accepted the investigator’s request to choose preventive measures against Sergunin IS in the form of arrest,” the court said.
Sergunin will remain in custody until December 13.
The meeting was held behind closed doors upon request for an investigation. The defense requested that a preventive measure be chosen for Sergunin that was not related to his detention in the pre-trial detention center.
Sergunin was detained criminal case about an extremist community, charged with Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The upper limit of the penalty under this article is up to 6 years of imprisonment.
A little later Basmanny Court arrested By December 13, Navalny’s other two lawyers were Alexey Liptser and Vadim Kobzev. They are also accused of joining an extremist community.
“Protection is not complicity”
On Friday, October 13, searches were carried out in Sergunin, Liptser and Kobzev. First information about investigative activities reported Former editor of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Alexey Nakitov (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent).
Navalny’s ally Ivan Zhdanov (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) posted on social networks durability The case materials allege that the lawyers “used their status in providing legal assistance to gain access to the correctional institution, ensuring the regular transfer of information between the leaders of the extremist community, its participants and thus AA Navalny.” continued to perform the functions of leader and leader of the extremist community in planning, preparation, creating conditions and committing extremist crimes.”
The human rights project “First Chamber” demanded an end to the persecution of Navalny’s lawyers.
“October 13, 2023 will go down in Russian legal history as a dark day for the legal profession. Three defenders of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were arrested: Vadim Kobzev, Alexey Liptser and Igor Sergunin. They are accused of participating in an “extremist community.” <…> But this is ridiculous!
Protection is not complicity. “Lawyers are not partners or accomplices of their clients, they provide them with the protection provided for in the Russian Constitution.” expression organizations.
Human rights defenders said that on October 13, searches were carried out at the office of the Moscow bar association “Dalet”, of which Navalny’s other lawyer Olga Mikhailova is a member, as well as at the office of lawyer Alexei Laden. Crimea.
Navalny’s trials
Navalny is serving his sentence on a number of charges, including creating an extremist community – the Anti-Corruption Foundation (recognized by the Ministry of Justice as an extremist organization performing the functions of a foreign agent and included in the register of banned organizations in Russia). He has been in prison since 2021 and was previously sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in the Yves Rocher case and nine years in prison specifically for large-scale fraud and contempt of court.
26 September court approved Legality of Navalny’s sentence in case of extremism. The meeting was held behind closed doors due to concerns for the prosecutor’s safety. The convicted person will remain in prison until December 2038.
September 27 Navalny for a year transferred into a single-chamber room. He stated that he had already been sent to SUON (strict conditions for serving the sentence), ShIZO (penalty cell), PKT (cell-type facilities).