The Investigative Committee has completed the investigation of the criminal case of «discrediting» the army against the co-chairman of «Memorial», human rights activist Oleg Orlov. This was reported on the site CHRA Memorial.
Orlov was handed the text of the indictment in the case of repeated discrediting of the armed forces (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), earlier the prosecution had approved the prosecution. The case will be transferred to the Koptevsky District Court of Moscow.
On March 21, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against the human rights activist. On that day in Moscow, security forces came with searches to nine employees of Memorial, as well as to the offices of a human rights organization. The investigative actions were connected with the case on the rehabilitation of Nazism (paragraph «c» of part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), which was initiated in early March.
According to the Human Rights Center, the investigator's decision on the searches stated that Memorial's employees may have «instruments and means of committing a crime, objects with traces of a crime.»
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After the searches, the employees were taken for interrogation, all the detainees were released in the status of witnesses. At the same time, Orlov became a defendant in a criminal case on “discrediting” the army due to a Facebook post, and he was ordered not to leave. This is a post that the human rights activist published on November 14, 2022. This is his column about the war in Ukraine.
“The bloody war unleashed by the Putin regime in Ukraine is not only the mass murder of people, the destruction of the infrastructure, economy, and cultural objects of this wonderful country. Not only the destruction of the foundations of international law. This is also a severe blow to the future of Russia,” wrote Orlov.
The human rights activist also said that the reason for his criminal prosecution was the denunciation of activists Mironenko V.V. and Bokhunko S.A., involved in the movement «Veterans of Russia». Earlier, as TASS wrote, it was on the basis of the denunciation of «Veterans of Russia» against the employees of the «International Memorial» that a criminal case was opened on the rehabilitation of Nazism.