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Russian police target Nobel Prize-winning group in mass raids

Oleg Orlov, chairman of Russian human rights centre Memorial, speaks to journaists outside Russian Investigative Committee in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova

Russian security forces raided the homes of former employees of the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Memorial on Tuesday and took some of them in for questioning, the group said, in a move denounced by one opposition party as an assault on dissent.

Founded to document political repression in the Soviet Union, Memorial was officially banned in late 2021 after the authorities claimed it supported terrorism and extremism, charges that it called absurd.

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