“Memorial” expelled Oleg Orlov and Svetlana Hannushkina from its Council
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The Center for the Protection of Human Rights “Memorial” expelled from its Council two of its oldest members in Russia: Oleg Orlov and Svetlana Hannushkina. Also, Orlov will no longer be the co-chairman of the “Memorial” CGPC.
The Center’s statement says that “this was done primarily to ensure the security” of Orlov and Hannushkina.
“Earlier, the authorities recognized Oleg Petrovych and Svetlana Alekseevna as “foreign agents”. Then they entered the register of the “Memorial” CGPC itself. The website of our organization was blocked. Oleg Orlov is in a pre-trial detention center, he is awaiting an appeal. These and other circumstances of the ongoing suppression of civil society in Russia became the reasons for our decision,” said the statement of “Memorial”.
At the same time, the Center emphasized that Orlov and Hannushkina “remain memorialists, friends and mentors.”
- On February 27, a court in Moscow sentenced the co-chairman of “Memorial”, one of the most famous Russian human rights defenders, Oleg Orlov, to two and a half years in prison. He was found guilty of “repeated discrediting of the Russian army.” Orlov’s anti-war statements became the reason for the initiation of the criminal case.
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