The office of Amnesty International was sealed in Moscow

In Moscow, the office of the International Organization of Amnesty International was sealed. About this on his Facebook page was written by an employee of the Russian branch of AI Ivan Kondratenko.

“This morning we discovered that the Amnesty office is sealed in Moscow, the castles are broken out (and new ones are inserted), it is written that you need to contact the Moscow City Property Department with a letter to bring things out. All our computers, papers, personal belongings are left there behind closed doors,” Kondratenko wrote.

According to him, before this employees did not come any warning papers or notifications, there were no phone calls. Amnesty, wrote Kondratenko, rented an office in the capital for more than twenty years and all these years regularly paid for the rental of the premises.

In the Kremlin, as RBC reports , they do not have information about the sealing of the office. “For the first time I hear about this. I absolutely do not have any information on this score,” said Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. He suggested that “here, perhaps the office employees have some kind of information,” and recommended contacting them.

The press service of the Moscow Property Department reported that the office was provided by Amnesty International under a lease agreement. Its term expired in January 2008 and was extended provided that one of the parties has the right to refuse the contract, warning the other in three months. The department states that "in connection with significant violations of the conditions for payment of the lease," the tenant was asked to pay off the debt within a month and warned that in case of refusal after three months the contract was terminated.

"This claim was ignored by an unscrupulous tenant. As a result of which the Department of the Federal State Registration Service, Cadastre and Cartography of Moscow was recorded in the USRP on the termination of the contract. In connection with which the premises were closed and sealed. For the export of property of the organization, it is necessary to send an official appeal to the city property," the press service noted.

On the eve of Amnesty International, the requirement to investigate the torture of Ildar Dadin, as well as immediately release him.