CSO of the Week: Memorial

Week-ending 17 December 2021 This week the legal proceedings to close down the Memorial International Society and the Memorial Human Rights Centre continued, hearings in the former case resumed on…

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CSO of the Week: Memorial. On Human Rights Day, 11 human rights organisations spoke out in defence of Memorial.

Week-ending 10 December 2021 On 10 December 2021 Memorial, a cornerstone of Russian civil society, is under threat of liquidation by the Russian authorities on baseless charges. Memorial’s two entities…

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CSO of the Week: Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation

Week-ending 3 December 2021 The banning and designation as 'extremist' of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, along with other organisations associated with him, which Amnesty International has described as 'one of…

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CSO of the Week: International Memorial Society and Memorial Human Rights Centre

Week-ending 19 November 2021 This week attention has remained focused on the fate of the Memorial organisations - the International Memorial Society and the Memorial Human Rights Centre, both of…

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CSO of the Week: Memorial threatened with closure

Week-ending 12 November 2021 On 11 November 2021 Memorial International Society received notification from the Supreme Court that on 8 November 2021 the Prosecutor-General's Office had brought a suit to…

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CSO of the Week: Gulagu.net

The civil society organisation Gulagu.net continued in the news this week. Gulagu.net describes itself as a project 'against corruption and torture in Russia, bringing together more than 18,000 activists and volunteers.'…

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