The Supreme Court recognized Memorial as an extremist organization.

This was reported from the courtroom. сообщает correspondent for the Telegram channel "Word in Defense."

The case of the international public movement "Memorial" was heard behind closed doors. The lawyer Leonid Solovyov, who was supposed to defend the organization, was not allowed to participate in the trial and was removed from the courtroom.

The designation of Memorial as an extremist organization automatically imposes a complete ban on its activities in Russia. This includes concerns regional divisions. Members of the organization face up to six years in prison.

Memorial has operated since the late 1980s as a movement researching political repression. One of its founders was academician Andrei Sakharov. In December 2021, the Moscow City Court granted a lawsuit to liquidate the organization and the human rights center of the same name (the Prosecutor General's Office claimed that Memorial was creating a "false image of the USSR as a terrorist state").

In 2022, Memorial was among the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.