Lawyers for Alexei Navalny jailed by Russian court

Lawyers Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev all who once represented late opposition leader Alexei Navalny (AP)

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed as part of Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on dissent.

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were jailed from three and a half to five years by a court in the town of Petushki, about 60 miles east of Moscow.