Russia: Drop Criminal Libel Charges Against Activist
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
- Organization: Human Rights Watch
- Link: http://www.hrw.org
"Russian authorities should immediately drop criminal libel charges against Oleg Orlov, the prominent activist who heads Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch said today. The charges stem from Orlov's statement that Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, was responsible for the murder of Natalia Estemirova, Memorial's leading researcher in Chechnya."
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