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Raids against Russian group Memorial part of intimidation campaign -EU

FILE PHOTO: A man walks inside an office of the human rights group Memorial in Moscow, Russia December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

The European Union on Thursday denounced Russian police raids against the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, describing them as part of an intimidation and harassment campaign.

Russian security forces raided the homes of former employees of Memorial on Tuesday and took some of them in for questioning, the group said.

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