The search of the Moscow offices of Memorial International, the Memorial Human Rights Center and the Civic Assistance Committee, an association that provides assistance to immigrants chaired by Svetlana Gannushkina, is still ongoing after eight hours. , one of the founders of Memorial.
“They do not let anyone in, not even the lawyers or legal representatives of these organizations”, reports Memorial International, whose offices are still the director of the organization Elena Zhemkova and 4 other employees. Their phones were confiscated.
Gannushkina, who was allowed to leave the Committee headquarters where she was this morning, when the search began, and where she was questioned as the “legal representative” of the Civil Assistance Committee, confirmed that the today it is linked to the long-open case Bakhrom Khamroev, who worked for the Committee 17 years ago. The Committee’s servers and hard drives have been seized, she reported.
Khamroev, president of the Association for the defense of human rights “Pomoshch” and a member of the Memorial Center for Human Rights, was arrested in Moscow on charges of condoning terrorism on social media. Previously, he had been repeatedly assaulted by the security services, including with false accusations and physical violence. The authorities had also tried to revoke his citizenship on the basis of documents fabricated by the FSB.
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