V Human rights centre Memorial:
Today is the video appeal hearing of Nobel prize laureate Oleg #Orlov (70 y.o), #Russia 's preeminent human rights defender, 100 ds after his jailing
On 27 February he was sentenced to 2.5 ys for “repeated discrediting” of the army - he consistently and publicly expressed his protest against the war in #Ukraine
From the court, Oleg Orlov was sent to Moscow pre-trial detention center-7 “Kapotnya”, then transferred to Syzran
One of #Russia 's bravest human rights defenders, 'Oleg #Orlov , co-chair of the #Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization #Memorial , has been convicted under the newly instituted ‘crime’ of ‘repeatedly discrediting’ the #Russian Armed Forces and sentenced to two years and eleven months in a penal colony.'
#Yashin, #KaraMurza, #Kolesnikova and today #Orlov were sentenced to long prison terms. 100s of political prisoners in #Russia and #Belarus. The longer the #Putin system lasts, the more restrictive it becomes, and #Navalnyi is just the tip of the iceberg. All the more courageous were all those who openly demonstrated their solidarity with Orlov in court today.
“My ex-husband wanted to go fight — he claimed it was his duty,” she said. “I said, ‘No, you have an 8-year-old daughter, and it’s a much more important duty to be a father to her.’”
“People are dying there in Ukraine for nothing,” she said.
He finally understood and stayed, she told me'
“History for #Putin is an instrument to shape current events. He is absolutely uninterested in historical truth,” said Oleg #Orlov , a leading human rights activist for more than three decades at the head of #Memorial , which was shut down in 2021.
At the beginning of the war last year, Mr. Orlov stood alone on Red Square with a banner saying, “1945: A country victorious over fascism. 2022: A country where fascism is victorious.”