A Moscow court yesterday heard a case against Memorial International’s Human Rights Center, a day after the Russian Supreme Court outlawed the main organization of the human rights group. The ruling against Memorial International on Tuesday sparked an international outcry, with the US, France and the Council of Europe condemning its “liquidation.” Founded in 1989 by Soviet dissidents, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, Memorial is Russia’s most prominent rights organization. It has chronicled Stalin-era purges, and also campaigned for the rights of political prisoner...