Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

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.

Russia sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for sharing his messages from prison wth the outside world.