The EU, US, Canada, UK and Australia deplored, on 31 December, the decisions of two Russian courts to forcibly close International Memorial and the Memorial Human Rights Center (see EUROPE B12856A20).
“The claim by Russian authorities that Memorial Human Rights Center’s principled and peaceful work ‘justifies extremism and terrorism’ cannot be accepted”, they said in a joint statement.
According to the EU and these countries, the “unconscionable decision to silence Memorial”...