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Shutting down International Memorial; An insult to victims of the Russian Gulag

December 29, 2021
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Shutting down International Memorial; An insult to victims of the Russian Gulag

Human Lives Human Rights: Russian Supreme Court ordered the closure of civil society organization International Memorial for allegedly violating “foreign agent” legislation.

Founded in 1989, International Memorial is one of Russia’s most respected civil society organizations. International Memorial has worked tirelessly to document the atrocities and political repression carried out under the rule of Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders.

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The prosecutors claimed that International Memorial repeatedly violated the “foreign agents” law by refusing to label their content as produced by a “foreign agent” or adding lengthy disclaimers stating the same.

A request to liquidate Human Rights Center Memorial, International Memorial’s sister organization, was also submitted to the Moscow City Court on the same day. The court is due to make a decision on this request in the coming days.

However, by shutting down the organization, Russian authorities trample on the memory of millions of victims lost to the Gulag.

Rights groups say that the closure of International Memorial represents a direct assault on the rights to freedom of expression and association.

The authorities’ use of the ‘foreign agents’ law to dissolve the organization is a blatant attack on civil society that seeks to blur the national memory of state repression.

The decision to shut down International Memorial is a grave insult to victims of the Russian Gulag and must be immediately overturned.

 

 

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