Oleg Orlov is preventing costs of “discrediting” Russia’s armed forces.
Moscow:
Russia’s Justice Ministry has designated Oleg Orlov, a veteran Russian human rights campaigner, a “international agent”, the ministry mentioned on Friday.
The international agent designation requires that folks and entities on the checklist place a disclaimer on gadgets they publish and imposes strict monetary reporting and self-disclosure necessities.
Orlov, 70, has been for greater than 20 years one of many leaders of the Memorial human rights group, which gained a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 — a 12 months after it was banned and dissolved in Russia.
Orlov is preventing costs of “discrediting” Russia’s armed forces. In October he was fined in a case primarily based on an article during which he wrote that Russia underneath President Vladimir Putin had descended into fascism.
He appealed in opposition to that verdict and prosecutors then sought a three-year jail sentence, accusing him of “political hatred of Russia”, one thing he denies.
In December, a Moscow court docket ordered a retrial in Orlov’s case on a authorized technicality after prosecutors shifted their place.
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