The Moscow City Court liquidated the Center for Assistance to Indigenous Peoples of the North

The Moscow City Court decided to liquidate the Center for Assistance to the Indigenous Peoples of the North. about this with reference to the lawyers of the Institute of Law and Public Policy Grigory Vaypan and Vladislav Chepelev. writes Mediazona

Lawyers clarified to the Internet project that the court justified the liquidation on “formal grounds”: outdated provisions of the charter, lack of reports to the Ministry of Justice and an outdated legal address. Vaypan and Chepelev also stressed that the Moscow City Court refused to give the organization time to correct violations in its activities.

• In May 2017, Pavel Sulyandziga, a defender of the indigenous minorities of the North, asked for political asylum in the United States due to fears for the safety of his family members. According to him, the FSB officers tried to fabricate a criminal case against him, putting pressure on his relatives and friends. Sulyandziga said that his son, who was doing military service in the Moscow region, was transferred to the Caucasus at the request of the FSB, and a businessman he knew was forced to write a statement about fraud against Sulyandziga.
• In December 2016, was detained a human rights activist, director of the Center for Assistance to Indigenous Peoples, Rodion Sulyandziga, in Moscow. He was supposed to open and lead a seminar of the informal association of experts of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East "Aboriginal Forum".
• In November 2015, the Ministry of Justice included the Center for Assistance to the Indigenous Minorities of the North in the list of "foreign agents" due to funding sources located abroad.