Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were jailed Friday in Russia as part of the Kremlin's crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times.

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court's sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision

Three lawyers, who represented opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died last year in an Arctic prison, were found guilty by a Russian court of being part of a