“Of course, nothing is over with this,” Maria Eismont, one of the lawyers that represented the group in court, said after the ruling. Memorial’s branch, the Memorial Human Rights Center, is up for closure as well, with a court hearing in the Moscow City Court scheduled for Wednesday morning. Russian authorities in recent months have mounted pressure on rights groups, media outlets and individual journalists, naming dozens as foreign agents. “Memorial is an institution of national memory about the times of the Great Terror and Soviet repressions,” the group said in a statement. One of the five detained activists detained on Tuesday, Ksenia Fadeyeva, is reportedly facing charges of forming an extremist group.
