A supporter of the Memorial Human Rights Centre is seen in front of a police officer during a hearing on a case to shut it down outside the Russian Supreme Court, in Moscow, Russia. Memorial is one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights groups founded by Soviet dissidents including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov in 1989. Russian prosecutors earlier this month asked the Supreme Court to shut the international branch of Memorial, labeled as a "foreign agent" in Russia, over legal and constitutional violations.
- Package: Russia Memorial Centre Closing Trial
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 28.12.2021
- Date published: 28.12.2021
- Author: Mikhail Voskresenskiy
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5036x3326px, 8.8Mb
- Job-ID: b217fb983fe2403e