News
04 November 2021
Police officer attacked a woman from Moscow who refused to let him in her apartment, saying «I’m the authority here»
03 November 2021
The Investigative Committee initiated criminal proceedings after the battery of a teenager by the police officers
29 October 2021
Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory will supervise the investigation of complaints of tortures committed at the Tbilissky District Police Department
25 October 2021
The Nizhny Novgorod Court established that illegal actions of the investigators helped the guilty of tortures to escape from punishment
25 October 2021
The Russian investigative authorities did not have enough time, again: period of limitations in case of Aleksandr Bogdanov, who proved to the ECHR to have been tortured, is expired
22 October 2021
18+ A resident of the Krasnodar Territory died after a day spent at the police department
20 October 2021
The Krasnodar medics refuse to provide medical treatment to Aleksey Dinisenko, the Kuban powerlifting champion, who was beaten up by the police
19 October 2021
In Orenburg, three police officers, suspected of battery and rape threats with regard to Gennadiy Shvetsov, a 18-year old citizen of Orenburg, are apprehended. A criminal case is opened.
19 October 2021
The ECHR established that the Russian authorities bear responsibility for abduction and brutal treatment of Salman Tepsurkayev, moderator of 1Adat Telegram-channel chat
15 October 2021
A 18-year old citizen of Orenburg applied to the Committee Against Torture with an application concerning a battery and a rape threat at the police department
13 October 2021
19-year old powerlifting champion of the Krasnodar Territory is hospitalized after apprehension by the police officers
12 October 2021
Police officers in the Krasnodar Territory broke a pensioner’s arm due to his refusal to put on a mask (video)
06 October 2021
The Nizhny Novgorod Prosecutor’s Office asked to quash the criminal prosecution of quash Dikin brothers charged with an attempt to assassinate General Director of “Stolitsa Nizhny” group of companies Oleg Sorokin
02 October 2021
Was journalist Irina Slavina inticed to suicide through pressure exerted by the state?
30 September 2021
A criminal case is opened against a pensioner who complained of the police officers who beat him up
30 September 2021
The court sentenced the resident of Nizhny Novgorod who was beaten up in a police van to one year and ten months of prison term in a maximum security penal colony
27 September 2021
The Committee Against Torture submits an urgent appeal to the ECHR concerning apprehension and deportation of Valentina Chupik, human rights defender
27 September 2021
The Committee Against Torture publishes the Levada-Center research on the Russian people’s attitude to violence during rallies
24 September 2021
The Orenburg court awarded a compensation for apprehension during a rally to a lawyer with the Committee Against Torture
23 September 2021
Resident of Nizhny Novgorod who was beaten up in a police van is charged with three years of penal colony for applying violence against a police officer