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Moscow Bans Oldest Russian Human Rights NGO Related to OSCE
A court in the Russian capital has ordered the closure of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a human rights organization founded in Soviet times. The Russian Justice Ministry's request for liquidation was granted, Judge Mikhail Kazakov ruled in the Moscow City Court. The OSCE strongly condemns this, especially since the Helsinki Group is linked with the establishment of the OSCE itself.
Soviet dissidents and founding members of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Yulia Vishnevskaya, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Dina Kaminskaya, Kronid Lyubarsky in
Munich, 1978. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons/ Yulia Vishnevskaya / Юлия Вишневская/ CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
The Russian courts are directly controlled by the Kremlin, which is why the decision was expected. Many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) complain of political persecution by the Russian judiciary.
Ad hoc inspections of Moscow Helsinki Group by the Justice Ministry led to the liquidation lawsuit. In the liquidation petition, several supposed violations of Russia's stifling…
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