People gather outside the Moscow City Court building during a hearing to consider the closure of the Memorial human rights center in Moscow, Russia, December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Memorial Human Rights Centre was ordered to shut by a Moscow court on Wednesday, a day after its sister organisation - Russia's oldest human rights group - was forced to close.
The Human Rights Centre keeps a running list of individuals it classifies as political prisoners, including Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
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