Memorial, Nobel-winning human rights organization, loses Moscow office

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court annulled the contract by which the International Memorial, an international human rights organization, had donated its office to its conjugal entity, Memorial, a human-rights research organization headquartered in Moscow.

The office building on Moscow’s Karetny Ryad has been confiscated by the state, following the Attorney General’s petition to the court, reports the Interfax. “This means that we will soon lose our home,” commented a staff member at Memorial.

Earlier, Memorial’s representatives said that they see the Attorney General’s demand for confiscation as a politically-motivated hostile takeover.

The federal High Court of Russia ordered the dissolution of International Memorial on December 2021. The same month, Moscow’s Municipal Court (“Mosgorsud”) issued an identical order to dissolve Memorial, a closely related organization. Neither of them were able to appeal these court decisions. Earlier, both organizations were listed as “foreign agents” in Russia.

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