In Moscow, the court again fined Memorial representatives under the law on foreign agents

We have changed the title of the news after the information about new fines appeared

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Yan Rachinsky, Chairman of the Board of International Memorial, 100 thousand rubles under the law on foreign agents (part 2 of article 19. 34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the lack of a foreign agent marking in the Vkontakte group “1968. Year of Human Rights. Yulia Orlova, press secretary of Memorial HRC, reports this.

Representatives of Memorial insist that all the resources of the organization are properly marked, and also specify that “the marking “foreign agent” is humiliating and contradicts the essence of the activities of the International Memorial. Memorial is no one’s agent, its function is to preserve the memory of the repressions of the Soviet period.”

13:42 The Tverskoy court fined Rachinsky 100,000 rubles for the lack of labeling on the International Memorial YouTube channel.

15:15 The Tverskoy Court has fined Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Center Memorial, 100,000 rubles for the lack of marking in Memorial's Twitter account.

• Memorial has launched a collection of donations to pay fines for violating the law on “foreign agents”.
• To date, 16 protocols out of 28 drawn up against the "International Memorial", HRC "Memorial" and their leaders have been considered, the amount of fines is 3 million rubles. Of these, 700 thousand rubles - for Rachinsky.
• The site 1968.memo.ru is a collection of testimonies about 1968, declared by the UN as the year of human rights.