(Reuters) - Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to halt the closure of human rights group Memorial, the TASS news agency reported.
(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to halt the closure of human rights group Memorial, the TASS news agency reported.
Memorial Human Rights Centre and its sister organisation – Russia’s oldest human rights group – were both ordered to shut down in December in a move decried in the West.
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