Secretly filmed footage of Alexey Navalny’s meetings with his lawyers in prison revealed

The team of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has discovered secret video recordings made by prison staff of Navalny’s meetings with his lawyers, his widow Yulia Navalnaya said on Tuesday.

Navalnaya said that the videos had been sent to an email address set up by Navalny’s team after it announced a reward for any information about Navalny’s sudden death in an Arctic prison in February.

The videos, which were made with a hidden camera installed in the meeting room, showed Navalny meeting with his lawyers Olga Mikhailova, Vadim Kobzev and Alexey Liptser, in breach of attorney-client privilege, Navalnaya said, stressing that the videos “should not exist at all”.

Another hidden camera installed in the ceiling of the meeting room recorded everything that Navalny wrote down, Navalnaya said, adding that her husband had told her that at one point he stood on the table and hit the ceiling, revealing a hidden camera installed in it.