INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court on Thursday rejected an appeal by jailed human rights defender Oleg Orlov against his imprisonment for criticizing the
city of Syzran, Orlov quoted a passage from a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials against Nazi German war criminals to describe Russia's
judicial system."They distorted, perverted and in the end achieved the total destruction of justice and law
prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials."These words can now be uttered by any Russian political prisoner
These words are surprisingly appropriate to characterize the current state of the Russian judicial system," Orlov said.Orlov, an
instrumental figure in the Nobel Prize-winning human rights organization Memorial, is one of the few anti-war activists who have stayed in
Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which triggered a broad crackdown on dissent, forcing many to flee the country.Speaking to
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