A complaint! Yesterday the Russian Supreme Court ordered the liquidation of @MemorialMoscow, the umbrella organisation of the Memorial Network. The interest here in Twitter and elsewhere was huge. /2
(link to a statement of Memorial in English)
memo.ru/en-us/memorial…
(link to a statement of Memorial in English)
memo.ru/en-us/memorial…
Most of the headlines stated: Memorial has been liquidated. Most readers apparently understood: That's it! But that's not true. Today the Moscow City Court is deciding on the fate of the @hrc_memorial. But even, if the outcome will be the same as yesterday, that won't mean .../3
...that Memorial is dead, too. First: There are more than 60 Memorial branches all over Russia and in some other countries as well. They will continue to work. Most probably the Russian State will come after many of them, too, some time soon. But the second: .../4
As Memorial states in its statement: Memorial is not a mere organisation with some legal status. It is even not a movement. Memorial is the need of people in Russia (and not only in Russia) to know the truth about the soviet state crimes. The truth about what happened,,,/5
...to millions of people, of loved ones. Third: Memorial will continue to fight these unlawful verdicts. After all, Memorial is a Human Rights defender's organisation. The work will go on.
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