After the Nobel Peace Prize, the kidnapping: a Russian court requisitions the headquarters of Memorial in Moscow

After the announcement in the morning of the victory of

, the Russian NGO Memorial was hit by the first restrictive measure by the Moscow authorities: a court in Moscow has in fact ordered the

of a

in favor of the State of the non-governmental organization,

considered in the Russian Federation as "a foreign agent".

Memorial, in business for over thirty years, was

but also the subsequent repressions and violations of human rights.

, under Putin's laws, as an

organization serving foreign countries.

The Nobel Prize arrived while in Moscow yet another hearing was underway against the NGO at the

court , which then established the seizure of its offices in the capital "transformed into public assets".

, a Belarusian dissident currently in prison, and the Ukrainian NGO

were awarded the prestigious award

.

The motivation: “They made an exceptional effort to document war crimes, human rights violations and abuse of power.

Together they demonstrate the importance of civil society for peace and democracy ”, as Berit Reiss-Andersen, head of the Nobel Committee said.

A decision that "wants to honor three exceptional defenders of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the three neighboring countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine".