Halya Coynash: Russian lawyers face reprisals for defending tortured Ukrainian prisoners

By Halya Coynash.

Russia's contempt for the law demonstrated in the trial of two Ukrainians illegally imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to over 20 years on trumped-up charges has now extended to the lawyers defending them. The judge in the trial of Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh has issued a 'private ruling' accusing Karpyuk's lawyer Dokka Itslayev and Klykh's - Marina Dubrovina of all kinds of unspecified 'infringements'.

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