In Perm, law enforcers searched the homes of human rights activists and members of the Perm-based "Memorial" Tatyana Margolina, Svetlana Makovetskaya and Igor Averkiev. This was reported in the Telegram channel of human rights activists.
As lawyer Elena Pershakova was told, the searches were connected with the initiation of a criminal case against the archives of the Perm "Memorial", the sanction for the search was given by a decision of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Perm. By the time the post was published, the searches had already been completed.
Tatyana Margolina and Svetlana Makovetskaya are also members of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation.
Also, searches were held at the members of the board of the Perm "Center for Historical Memory" Vera Sedinina and Nadezhda Agisheva, OVD-Info reports . The security forces also came to Sergei Trutnev and Sergei Maksimov, lawyers who collaborated with human rights activists.
In addition, the FSB officers were looking for the former head of the Perm "Memorial" Robert Latypov and came to his house.
“Those who have ended the search, take a non-disclosure agreement. So far, no one has been taken for interrogation, but summons were issued for interrogation next week, ”the Memorial Society noted .
According to investigators, Alexander Chernyshov, chairman of the Perm Center for Historical Memory, and Robert Latypov, ex-head of Memorial's regional department, tried to take archival documents of cultural and historical value to Germany. A criminal case was initiated under article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Chernyshov was removed from the flight at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on May 5 and detained. In March, he and the activists of the Perm "Memorial" were searched and seized, which were called "checks" in the protocols. Also, the defendants in the case were interrogated. On May 20, Chernyshov is due to leave the detention center.
