Oleg Orlov, head of human rights group Memorial, talks to the media outside Moscow's Khamovniki District Court. ©BELGA Winner of Parliament's human rights prize on trial MEPs express sympathy to victims of terror Orlov "under the EP's special moral and political protection" Almost a year to the day since Oleg Orlov and the Memorial organisation in Russia won Parliament's Sakharov Human Rights prize, the European Parliament has denounced "cynical and absurd attempts to implicate Memorial" in the crime of aiding terrorists, while Orlov himself stands trial on criminal charges of libel, risking three years in jail.
Gadu vēlāk, Eiropas Parlaments ir nosodījis "ciniskos un absurdos mēģinājumus apsūdzēt "Memoriālu" palīdzības sniegšanā teroristiem.