Novaya Gazeta author Victoria Ivleva fined 150,000 rubles for picketing in support of Memorial

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow fined Novaya Gazeta author Victoria Ivleva 150 thousand rubles for participating in a picket in support of the human rights organization Memorial . This was reported by Dozhd .

Human rights activist Yuri Samodurov was also fined 20,000 rubles. He was charged with violating the rules for organizing a public event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), and Ivleva was charged with repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A series of single pickets in support of Memorial took place on November 20. Twelve people were detained at the event. Ivleva and Samodurov spent the entire weekend at the police station.

• In mid-November, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Moscow Prosecutor's Office filed lawsuits demanding the liquidation of International Memorial and the Memorial Human Rights Center , accusing the organizations of violating the law on "foreign agents."
• Dozens of Russian and international organizations, politicians, scientists and cultural figures, including Nobel Peace Prize laureates Dmitry Muratov and Mikhail Gorbachev, spoke out in support of Memorial.
• The Kremlinstated that “Memorial has long had problems with compliance with Russian legislation.”