(20 Aug 2024)
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Moscow, Russia – 20 August 2024
1. Wide of courtroom, screen showing Alexei Navalny’s lawyers Alexei Liptser (left) and Vadim Kobzev
2. Various of screen showing Liptser and Kobzev
3. Wide of lawyers
4. Mid of audience
5. Wide of courtroom
6. Close up of screen showing Liptser sitting down
7. Mid of journalists
8. Wide of courtroom, screen UPSOUND (Russian) judge, no name given:
“The court determined that the decision of the second cassation court of general jurisdiction dated July 5, 2024 in relation to the accused Vadim Dmitrievich Kobzev and Alexei Evgenievich Liptser should be left unchanged and the appeal dismissed. The petition to change the preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to Vadim Dmitrievich Kobzev, Alexey Evgenievich Liptser, Igor Sergeevich Sergunin is to be denied.”
9. Close up of screen showing Liptser and Kobzev
10. Wide of lawyers talking to media outside court
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Grivtsov, lawyer:
“We cannot say that the court is biased. We can say that there is reason to believe, that there are doubts about how the Petushinsky District Court (of the Vladimir region) will evaluate the most important evidence in the case, if this evidence was obtained on the basis of decisions of the Vladimir Regional Court, that is, the heads of the Petushinsky District Court.”
12. Journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Grivtsov, lawyer:
“They carry themselves with dignity. (Journalist: “They have lost a lot of weight, is that true?”) It is hardly possible to admit that they feel good there (in pretrial detention facility), and it is unlikely that a normal person could feel good there, but they are strong, courageous people and we are confident that they will behave with dignity.”
14. Wide of court building
STORYLINE:
The Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a request to transfer the case of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers from the Vladimir region to nearby Moscow, leaving them behind bars pending the start of the trial.
“There are doubts about how the Petushinsky District Court (of the Vladimir region) will evaluate the most important evidence in the case, if this evidence was obtained on the basis of decisions of the Vladimir Regional Court, that is, the heads of the Petushinsky District Court,” one of their lawyers said after court hearing.
Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arrested in October 2023 on charges of participating in an extremist group.
According to Navalny’s allies, authorities accuse the lawyers of using their status as defense attorneys to pass letters from the imprisoned politician to his team. Both Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and a vast network of regional offices were outlawed as extremist organizations in 2021, a step that exposed anyone involved with them to prosecution.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the fiercest political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in February in the remote northern prison colony while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges that he had condemned as politically motivated.
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