Orlov sentence in Russia an attempt to silence Putin critics: Nobel Committee justiceinfo.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from justiceinfo.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Moscow-based Novaya gazeta newspaper said on February 29 that police detained its chief editor, Sergei Sokolov, and charged him with discrediting Russia's military.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has called the imprisonment of Oleg Orlov, the co-chairman of the Russian rights group Memorial, which shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, "politically motivated."
Henrik Pryser Libell and Megan Specia, The New York Times
Published: 10 Jan 2021 03:27 PM BdST
Updated: 10 Jan 2021 03:27 PM BdST Utoya Island, where a right-wing extremist massacred 69 people, mostly summer campers from the youth wing of Norway s Labor Party, seen on Jan 11, 2014. Some local residents have sued over plans for a public memorial to victims at a harbour across from Utoya, saying they would be traumatised anew if the area became a destination for tragedy tourism. Kyrre Lien/The New York Times A makeshift memorial in downtown Oslo for victims of the bombing there and the massacre of youths on Utoya Island in Norway, Jul 27, 2011. Some residents of the town across the harbour from Utoya have sued over plans for a public memorial to victims, saying they would be traumatised anew if the area became a destination for tragedy tourism. Todd Heisler/The New York Times