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| Current News | 20.04.2012
Memorial supports protest against Assad-Regime
 The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial takes part in a worldwide reading for democracy in Syria next Monday (23th April). The international literature festival berlin (ilb) calls upon intellectuals, writers, artists, cultural institutions, schools, universities, radio and TV stations to participate.
| | 02.04.2012
British Ambassador visits Memorial
 Last Friday (30th March) British Ambassador Simon McDonald visited the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial. Eyewitness Michael Lotsch and deputy director Helmuth Frauendorfer guided him through the former central Stasi remand prison.
| | 01.03.2012
Event: Russia after the elections
 On the 7th March the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial showed the documentary "Der Fall Chodorkowski" by Cyril Tuschi on the occasion of the presidential elections in Russia. In addition, experts on Russia and human rights activists discussed the political situation in the biggest country in the world. The event took place at Deutsche Kinemathek (Potsdamer Str. 2).
| | 01.03.2012
Event: Memory at Risk
 The cinema "Arsenal" (Potsdamer Straße 2) showed for the first time a film about the Tunisian secret service on 1st March. The documentary "Memory at Risk" reveals the practices of the state security in Tunisia. After the film members of the democracy movement discussed the challenges after the fall of a dictatorship. Hamza Chourabi, employee at the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, presented the discussion.
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