The Ministry of Justice asked the Supreme Court to postpone the trial of the Memorial case, appointed on November 13

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation sent a petition to the Supreme Court to transfer the meeting on the liquidation of the Memorial human rights company. This was reported to Interfax in the press service of the department.

"On November 5, the Ministry of Justice of Russia received the petition of the All-Russian Public Organization" Russian Historical-Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" on the deposition of the proceedings appointed by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on November 13, 2014, in connection with the holding of violations revealed by the Ministry of Justice of the Ministry of Justice ... Today the Ministry of Justice of Russia sent it to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with a request to satisfy the specified application, ”the report said.

Note that on the website of the Ministry of Justice, at the time of publication of the material, the press release was not published. There are also no comments on the Memorial portal.

Earlier, Deputy Minister of Justice, Sergei Gerasimov, told reporters that the Ministry of Justice is really going to apply to the Armed Forces with a request to postpone the consideration of the claim for the liquidation of the Memorial.

“We never had an end in itself the liquidation of NGOs that did not comply with the legislation ... The Ministry of Justice decided to send a letter to the Supreme Court to transfer the deadline for considering the claim in the Supreme Court for a later term. Given the fact that the Memorial plans to bring his charter to full compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation,” he said TASS.

The deputy minister noted that when making a decision in the ministry, "they very carefully studied the appeal of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Aleksandrovna Pamfilova to postpone the consideration of the claim in the Supreme Court on the liquidation of NGO" Memorial "to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin."

Recall that the Ministry of Justice is sure that during its activities the Memorial has repeatedly violated the current legislation, including the Constitution of the Russian Federation. "In July 2014, the company issued a re -warning that obliges violations until 09/30/2014. As of 10/13/2014, the above violations were not eliminated," the Ministry of Justice reported.

In turn, the “memorial” itself assured that the organization did not violate any laws with its activities. Also, employees of the organization claim that they could not get "no links to the norms of the law" from the Ministry of Justice. Recall, on January 17, 2013, a written warning was issued to the permanent governing body of Memorial, obliging to eliminate violations until July 30, 2013. The Memorial appealed this decision in all courts, but the courts left the decision of the Ministry of Justice in force. On October 10, the Ministry asked to liquidate the Memorial by contacting the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

The Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) Mikhail Fedotov confirmed that the "Charter of the" Memorial "has some contradictions with federal legislation." The Ministry of Justice, according to him, was sent a paper about the upcoming conference of the Memorial, at which they would consider the issue of amendments to the charter, but it was not possible to collect this conference before the court on November 13, in connection with which the human rights activists turned to the Ministry of Justice with a request to transfer the court. The department advised the "memorial" to write in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The other day, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to recommend the Ministry of Justice to withdraw a lawsuit to liquidate the Memorial society.

The conference "Memorial", apparently, will be held on November 20-23.

One of the main claims of the Ministry of Justice is the status of the territorial units of the "Memorial". The bottom line is that the status of most of them allegedly does not give the entire organization the right to be called the All -Russian. However, this can even play into the hands of the unification if it is still banned. Then the numerous regional branches of the Memorial will continue their work as independent and will not close.

Human rights activists themselves believe that the state is trying in this way to evade liability for violation of citizens' rights. “Instead of the fight against violations of citizens' rights, the state wages a war with those who identify these violations,” the organization said.

Recently, human rights activists are actively covering events in Ukraine, in particular, with the allegedly secret burial of the Pskov paratroopers. The organization also recognizes the political prisoner of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. At the end of August, the board of the Memorial published an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation, which called for "immediately stop Russian aggression against Ukraine."

In addition, in July of this year, the Ministry of Justice included the Memorial to the list of non -profit organizations performing the function of the Foreign Agent.

Amendments to the Law "On Non -Profit Organizations" were approved by the State Duma in July 2012. According to the new rules, any organization that receives funding from abroad is obliged to register as a “foreign agent” and every six months to provide full financial statements to the Ministry of Justice, as well as report on the results of his activities in the media. Russian non -profit organizations boycotted this law, which forced the Ministry of Justice to independently draw up a list of "foreign agents", which, in addition to human rights organizations, fell , for example, the Muravyovsk Park of Sustainable Nature Management.

The international historical, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" has been working in Russia since 1989, the first chairman of the organization was a well-known Soviet physicist, dissident and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. The main task of society is to identify the facts of political repression, the rehabilitation of their victims and perpetuate their memory. The Memorial conducts active human rights activities, including in Chechnya and other Caucasian republics.