Jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died - prison service

Lol

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Alexey Navalny buried in Moscow

Alexey Navalny has been buried in Moscow, following a religious ceremony in the city’s Maryino district
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Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been buried in Moscow, following a religious ceremony in the city’s Maryino district. Hundreds of his supporters, and a number of Western ambassadors, gathered outside the church on Friday afternoon.



MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny's name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday.

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vigras rojara said:
Let's see what the spin on this will be.
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The usual story:
Three lawyers who acted for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been given jail terms of up to five-and-a-half years on charges of taking part in an "extremist organisation".
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Rules of 'evidence' depend on who controls the courts:
Kobzev's own lawyer, Andrei Grivtsov, said the evidence against them amounted to illegal invasion of privacy.

"They're not allowed to eavesdrop on meetings between a lawyer and a client in a penal colony in principle - there's a direct legislative ban," he told BBC Russian.
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vigras rojara said:
Let's see what the spin on this will be.
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It is obviously politically motivated.

Going to play Devils Advocate for interests sake, so you can get what the Putiniks will say.

There are limits to attorney client privilege in basically every country.

The crime–fraud exception can render the privilege moot when communications between an attorney and client are themselves used to further a crime, tort, or fraud. In Clark v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that "A client who consults an attorney for advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud will have no help from the law. He must let the truth be told."[11] The crime–fraud exception also does require that the crime or fraud discussed between client and attorney be carried out to be triggered.[12] U.S. courts have not yet conclusively ruled how little knowledge an attorney can have of the underlying crime or fraud before the privilege detaches and the attorney's communications or requisite testimony become admissible.[13]
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It actually goes further, because even in the US with very explicit common law and constitutional protections, there are limitations on this. Albiet very narrow one.s
"They're not allowed to eavesdrop on meetings between a lawyer and a client in a penal colony in principle - there's a direct legislative ban," he told BBC Russian.
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WASHINGTON – Aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday defended his new rule letting investigators eavesdrop on phone calls between lawyers and suspected terrorists in jail.

But Ashcroft’s rule was attacked by civil-liberties advocates as an infringement of lawyer-client privilege.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) said in a letter to Ashcroft he was “deeply troubled” by what he called a “unilateral executive decision to authorize interception of privileged attorney-client communications between detained persons and their lawyers.”

Ashcroft spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said Ashcroft expanded an existing rule that allows the feds, with a court’s permission, to monitor inmate communications. Only 13 people in detention would be affected, she said.

Under the new rule, Ashcroft himself can approve the eavesdropping if the head of an intelligence or police agency shows that the suspected terrorist intends to use communications with his lawyer to facilitate more terrorism.
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https://nypost.com/2001/11/10/furor-over-fed-plan-to-snoop-on-lawyers/
For example, when the authorities expect want this, they will have to inform the people at the meeting that they are being monitored, and the recorded evidence cannot be used in the trial.

It is a really complex issue tbh.
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/lega...nt/uploads/sites/24/2022/08/GT-GJLE210047.pdf
 
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