The Moscow City Court rejected three appeals against fines to the Chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" under the article on foreign agents

On March 4, the Moscow City Court rejected three appeals against decisions on fines to the Chairman of the Board of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Alexander Cherkasov, under the article on the failure to mark a “foreign agent” on Memorial’s resources (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center Yulia Orlova.

press secretary of the Tverskoy District Court in 2019 imposed fines of 100 thousand rubles on Cherkasov for allegedly missing markings in the Ingush representative office of the Memorial Human Rights Center, Memorial Human Rights Center and for “Illegal profit-making of citizens in the North Caucasus.”

November December Facebook Twitter website Lawyers will appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.

• Memorial started paying fines under the article on “foreign agents.” collection of donations - At the moment, 26 out of 28 courts of first instance have passed, the total amount of the fine against the Human Rights Center “Memorial” and “International Memorial” and their leaders has reached 4.7 million rubles.
• The International Society "Memorial" was recognized as a "foreign agent" in 2016.