Russia cracks down on more rights groups, raids activists

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Published April 28, 2023 9:27 AM

By DASHA LITVINOVA and FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have cracked down on more human rights groups, ordering one to shut down and raiding the homes of advocates from another. Police on Friday searched the homes of three lawyers with the rights group Team Against Torture. On Thursday, a court in Moscow ordered to liquidate the Sova Center, a prominent non-governmental organization that monitors racism and xenophobia in Russia, as well as implementation of anti-extremism laws. Those are the latest steps in a clampdown that has intensified to unprecedented levels since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine and has elicited relentless criticism in the West.

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