Judge Elena Lenskaya of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested lawyer Vadim Kobzev in the case of participation in an “extremist community” (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). A Mediazona correspondent reported this from the courtroom.
The hearing was held behind closed doors. The investigator immediately asked to close the process because it “concerned the extremist community” and disclosure could threaten “the safety of the participants in the process.” Lawyer Grivtsov defending Kobzev objected, Kobzev supported him.
Search and arrest of Navalny’s lawyers
Formerly a judge of that The same court, Evgeniya Nikolaeva, sent lawyer Igor Sergunin from the Dalet collegium from the pre-trial detention center. They also chose a preventive measure for him without spectators or the press in the hall.
After the morning searches, in addition to Kobzev, other lawyers who defended Alexei Navalny — Sergunin and Alexei Liptser — were detained. Kobzev was supposed to be present today during the consideration of two lawsuits filed by the politician against maximum security colony No. 6 in Melekhovo.
In the Moscow collegium “Dalet”, where another lawyer of the oppositionist Olga Mikhailova is, searches were carried out. Novaya Gazeta, without citing sources, wrote that a search warrant was also issued against Mikhailova herself, but she is not in Russia.
Navalny’s ally Ivan Zhdanov published an excerpt from the case materials regarding the lawyers. The Investigative Committee believes that when they visited the politician in the colony, they passed on information to him for the “leadership of the extremist community.”