The NGO was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, alongside Belarusian lawyer and human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.
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A Moscow court on Friday (October 7th) ordered the seizure of the offices in the Russian capital of the NGO Memorial, banned from Russia, hours after it won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside a Belarusian activist and a a Ukrainian NGO. The main premises of Memorial in Russia “have been transformed into public goods”the Tverskoy court told the Interfax news agency after yet another trial against the NGO.
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Earlier in the day, after receiving the award, the organization denounced the lawsuit against her. “The minute the whole world congratulates us on the Nobel Prize, a trial is being held in the Tverskoy Court [de Moscou] to seize the premises of Memorial”she lamented.
Memorial was founded in 1987 and has since become the largest human rights organization in Russia, the Nobel committee said on Friday. “In addition to establishing a documentation center for Stalin-era victims, Memorial has compiled and systematized information on political oppression and human rights abuses in Russia,” detailed the committee.