News
23 October 2007
Lawyers from the Committee against Torture take part in the 12th session of Nizhny Novgorod young scholars
23 October 2007
Trial of SPF officers’ case is resumed in Sochi
19 October 2007
Yesterday the European Court of Human Rights found living conditions in the pre-trial detention centre of Nizhny Novgorod inhuman
18 October 2007
Seminar on kidnapping for human rights organizations and law enforcement agencies starts in Pyatigorsk
17 October 2007
SPF officers were illegally kept in a pre-trial detention centre for seven days regardless of the court decision
16 October 2007
Trial procedure for the case on Police Special Force’s mopping up in children’s camp “Druzhba” starts in Lazarevskoe district court
16 October 2007
The verdict upon the case of police officers accused of violent treatment of Gennadiy Denisov will probably be rendered on November 2
10 October 2007
Opalikha village citizen Valery Dontsov claims that policemen tortured him into confessing to the murder of his son.
05 October 2007
A traffic policeman was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment on probation and a fine of 35 thousand roubles
05 October 2007
Presentation of the book “POLICE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA. VETERANS OF THE CONFLICT IN RUSSIAN SOCIETY”
04 October 2007
Committee Against Torture once again achieved the reversal of an unlawful decision
04 October 2007
Human rights defenders will appeal against the acquittal on an officer of justice who beat a pensioner
02 October 2007
Defence lawyers of the OMON personnel sabotage the legal proceedings concerning the case of mass beatings in the camp
28 September 2007
Vice-chairperson of the Committee Against Torture Olga Sadovskaya arrived in Warszawa
27 September 2007
THE STATE MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CRIME OF A POLICEMAN THAT CRUELLY TREATED MINOR BOYS
25 September 2007
Sergey Oleynik, a victim of police ill-treatment, received the whole sum of compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage
21 September 2007
Two Chechen citizens have received 445 thousand roubles in compensation for torture and cruel treatment on the part of military men
21 September 2007
The teenage boy will get 20 thousand roubles for being unlawfully held in a detention facility
18 September 2007
The Lazarevsky District Court has adjourned the hearing of the criminal case against the OMON personnel until 2 October
17 September 2007
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