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01 August 2023 The Orenburg Regional Court upheld the acquittal of three police officers in the case of beating and threatening to rape a detainee 18 July 2023 In the Irkutsk region, eight people will be tried for sexualized violence towards prisoners from the Angarsk penal colony. Two of the defendants are personnel of a pre-trial detention center  17 July 2023 Three residents of Orenburg received 70 000 rubles each as compensation for the protracted investigation of torture 14 July 2023 «I saw a puddle of blood in front of me.» A resident of St. Petersburg claims that the police whacked his head during the arrest of punk band fans 10 July 2023 The court in Orenburg awarded half a million rubles in compensation for electric shock torture 07 July 2023 A court in Chechnya sentenced taxi driver Said Omarov to eight years and two months of imprisonment for the murder of Aleksey Kardashov. Initially, the Investigative Committee suspected that the abduction of Mr. Kardashov was effectuated by the local security forces 04 July 2023 A court in Chechnya sentenced Zarema Musayeva to five and half years of imprisonment. The announcement of the sentence lasted seven minutes, and Mrs. Musayeva’s attorney was severely beaten this morning 23 June 2023 «I will beat you like one smashes a total bitch, so you’d tell us everything.» A resident of Anapa was diagnosed with a concussion after visiting the local police station 19 June 2023 A resident of Nizhny Novgorod complained that a policeman had broken his arm. A few days later, the victim became a defendant in the criminal case of insulting that officer 07 June 2023 In Orenburg, the Ministry of Internal Affairs apologized for the unlawful arrest of a participant in a 2021 rally in support of Mr. Navalny 05 June 2023 In Chechnya, two former National Guard officers received a two-year suspended sentence in abduction case 31 May 2023 In Russia, the chances of getting a court’s acquittal are 0.15%. There are only three exceptions: cases against state agents, trials by jury and cases of private prosecution 29 May 2023 In April, two detainees were found dead in the Orenburg pre-trial detention center. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into these deaths 25 May 2023 The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court upheld the conviction of the policemen who beat the suspect and planted mephedrone on him 17 May 2023 «While I was lying on the floor, the medics randomly kicked my legs, ribs and head». Two homeless persons from St. Petersburg complained about beatings in the city hospitals 10 May 2023 «A tacit endorsement of the informal hierarchy.» The ECHR for the first time delivered a judgment on the abuse towards the “outcasts” in Russian prisons 05 May 2023 «Inventing along the way.» Here’s how came the expert’s questioning in the case of Zarema Musayeva 02 May 2023 «I ran the fingers along my left cheek, collected some blood and saw my teeth in my hand.» During her stay at the police department, the resident of Moscow got a smashed face and two teeth knocked out 28 April 2023 In Nizhny Novgorod, the officers of the Centre for Combating Extremism searched the domiciles of the CAT’s lawyers 27 April 2023 The lawyer of the Crew Against Torture Olga Sadovskaya received the award of the Moscow Helsinki Group