INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian and international human rights activists on Thursday condemned the dissolution of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), Russia's oldest
Moscow apartment of Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist Andrei Sakharov
A year before, the Soviet Union had signed the Helsinki Accords, which pledged signatories to respect human rights and fundamental
freedoms.Other founding members of the organization included dissidents Yelena Bonner and historian Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who died in
rights organization," said Oleg Orlov, a laureate of the MHG and a member of Memorial, another prominent human rights group that was forced
on Thursday.With its members persecuted by the Soviet authorities, the group was forced to dissolve in 1982, but reformed in the wake of the
requesting the transfer of those held in pre-trial detention to house arrest, calling for an amnesty of prisoners, and urging the state to
better protect journalists.One of its most significant campaigns was the provision of legal assistance to Belarusian citizens facing
will take, how many destinies it will destroy
Moscow Helsinki Group is unlawful and must be reversed, and the repression of civil society must stop
