{"id":403963,"date":"2021-11-24T17:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/court-cases-against-human-rights-group-memorial-start-in-russia"},"modified":"2021-11-24T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:42:52","slug":"court-cases-threatening-human-rights-group-memorial-start-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/24\/court-cases-threatening-human-rights-group-memorial-start-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Court cases threatening human rights group Memorial start in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cases under \u2018foreign agents\u2019 law mark attack on civil society and attempt to recast Soviet history<\/p>

Russia may dissolve Memorial, the country\u2019s premier human rights group, in an attack on civil society and symbolic reversal of the freedoms won by dissidents at the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/p>

A supreme court case, to be heard on Thursday, may mark a watershed in Vladimir Putin\u2019s campaign to recast Soviet history by banning International Memorial, which began meeting in the late 1980s to shed light on atrocities and political repression under Stalin and other Soviet leaders.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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