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Russian court upholds move to shut down rights group Memorial – Ifax – Metro US

Russian court upholds move to shut down rights group Memorial – Ifax

A man leaves the office of the human rights group
A man leaves the office of the human rights group Memorial in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court upheld a decision to shut down Russia’s Memorial Human Rights Centre on Monday and rejected its appeal, the Interfax news agency reported.

The rights group and its sister organisation – Russia’s oldest human rights group – was ordered to shut down in December in a move decried in the West.