Russia's leading human rights group Memorial has designated the Russian director of the Moscow-based Library of Ukrainian Literature a political prisoner, following her detainment while her home and offices were raided by Russian police over claims of "Russophobia."
The Moscow Times: Russian librarian is political prisoner – Memorial human rights NGO
Head of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina waits for her judgment in the Tagansky court in Moscow, on Oct. 30, 2015 after been suspected of inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity by distributing books by Ukrainian ultranationalist author, Dmytro Korchynsky, whose works are banned in Russia.
