A court in Moscow declared illegal the transfer of the office of the liquidated International Memorial to a partner

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow ruled that the transfer of the office of the liquidated International Memorial on Karetny Ryad to the Scientific Research and Educational Center (SREC) Memorial was illegal. The telegram channel “Society Memorial” is about this. The building became the property of the state.

reports The office on Karetny Ryad has been owned by the International Memorial since 2005. In 2021, after the Supreme Court organization, it transferred the building into the possession of the Research and Educational Center (SRTC) Memorial.

liquidated In September, the leaders of the liquidated organization received subpoenas in the case of “invalidation of transactions.” On September 16, a preliminary court hearing took place.

Accounts of the organization's executive director Elena Zhemkova and Memorial Boris Belenkin on September 14. On October 7, during the meeting, this decision was made.

NIPC arrest was canceled In addition, the court, even before the start of the hearings, ordered the seizure of the accounts and property of International Memorial.

“There is not a single legal basis for declaring the deal invalid: we assess the attempt to seize Memorial’s premises in favor of the state as raider and political,” the organization.

noted - In November 2021, the prosecutor's office filed claims with the Moscow City Court for liquidation and with the Supreme Court for liquidation. The reason was numerous violations of the law on “foreign agents” that the organizations allegedly committed. On December 28, 2021, the Supreme Court of the International Society “Memorial”, and on December 29 of the same year, the Moscow City Court adopted a similar decision regarding the Human Rights Center “Memorial”. The human rights center "Memorial" of "International Memorial" liquidated the decision - "International Memorial" was included in the register of NGOs - "foreign agents" in 2016. The Memorial Human Rights Center was recognized as a “foreign agent” in 2014. - October 7, 2022, the day the court decided to take away the office from Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize organization. received