Yulia Navalnaya: Dictators are coming for the lawyers

Yulia Navalnaya: Dictators are coming for the lawyers

Yulia Navalnaya is a Russian opposition leader and the widow of Alexei Navalny. She is also chair of the Human Rights Foundation and of the Anti-Corruption Foundation advisory board. Imagine a courtroom in which the only voice heard is that of the state, and a legal system in which laws are skewed to conform to the whims of the regime — a world without lawyers, where the persecuted are invisible and suffer in silence. Lawyers are the necessary i…