The office of the HRC "Memorial" in Moscow. Photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

15 October 2021, 08:28

Moscow office of HRC "Memorial"* attacked

A group of young people burst into the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, when a film about the journalist Gareth Jones was screened there.

The office of the HRC "Memorial"* located at No. 10 Sadovaya-Karetnaya Street in Moscow was attacked by "fascist thugs," Sergey Parkhomenko, a journalist, has stated.

In his comment to this publication, Alexander Chernykh, a journalist of the "Kommersant", posted a video in which a group of young people in the HRC's office was chanting: "We'll not forget; we'll not forgive!" The "Sota" Telegram channel has also posted a video, in which young men in tracksuits and masks are shouting: "Shame!"

Today, the office of the HRC "Memorial"* was holding a joint, with the Polish Cultural Centre, screening of Agnieszka Holland's film "Gareth Jones". The film tells about the arrival of the British journalist, Gareth Jones, to the Soviet Union in 1933, where he witnessed the Ukrainian Holodomor (Great Famine), the "OVD-Info"** has reported.

*The organization has been put on the register of foreign agents by the Russian Ministry of Justice.

**The edition has been included by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the list of the media-foreign agents.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on October 14, 2021 at 09:19 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: The Caucasian Knot

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