News
26 February 2025
After five years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs apologized to the relatives of a man killed during a chase in the Stavropol region
18 February 2025
«The officer gave me 20 000 rubles so that I wouldn’t complain.» A Moscow resident claims that police officers first broke his arm and then offered him money for his silence
21 January 2025
The men accused of sexualized violence against prisoners from the Angarsk penal colony joined the special military operation
17 January 2025
Sterlitamak city policemen claim that they threw the man to the ground because he was trying to escape. However, the CCTV shows the man did not run away from them
08 January 2025
The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic left Zarema Musayeva in custody. Her attorney was informed about the hearing an hour and a half before the event
17 December 2024
A criminal case was opened against a police officer in Nizhniy Novgorod. He had arrested a man who ended up in the hospital with a broken jaw
29 November 2024
The police officer who had stepped on the head of a detainee joined the special military operation. He took advantage of the recent legislation and engaged in hostilities without waiting for a court’s sentence
28 November 2024
The second criminal case against Zarema Musayeva. The Crew Against Torture asks the UN Special Rapporteur to receive an official response from Russia on her health and the reasons for the new criminal prosecution
22 November 2024
«This is an enclosed area, no one will protect us.» Several prisoners informed human rights defenders about torture in the penal colony «Black Dolphin»
15 November 2024
The Irkutsk court validated the actions of the enforcement agencies who had suppressed the riot in the Angarsk colony
08 November 2024
«It was like a nightmare.» A Moscow resident claims that the policemen tied his legs with tape and beat him
01 November 2024
Censorship and suppression of Russian society. The European Court’s «harshest» ruling on the complaint by Russian foreign agents
31 October 2024
«The officers electrocuted me, laughed and were saying: Try and guess, who did it?» A convict from the prison “Black Dolphin” claims that he was ill-treated by its employees
23 October 2024
Police officers, who broke a guard’s spine in Krasnodar region, face up to twelve years in prison
19 August 2024
«First, the officers beat us, and then we prayed together at the police station.» Two residents of a Dagestani village accuse policemen of beating them and torturing them with a stun gun
02 August 2024
An inmate from the Black Dolphin prison claims that a prison officer beat him with a hammer — the story could have been confirmed by camera footage, but the investigator did not seize it before the end of the storage period
24 July 2024
For over a year, the prosecutor’s office and the Federal Penitentiary Service have been preventing the mother of a man who committed suicide in an Orenburg pretrial detention center from obtaining documents about her son’s health
18 July 2024
A resident of the Amur region claims that a policeman stepped on his head at one of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur police stations
01 July 2024
A Moscow resident claims that a security guard broke her leg when she wanted to use the restroom after the bar closed
14 June 2024
The policemen took one of the applicants to the police station in the trunk and beat the other applicant on the head with a wooden plank. 400,000 rubles were awarded to two Nizhny Novgorod residents who were ill-treated during their arrest