News
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
20 September 2021
“For one and a half hours, ambulance was called from different phones. The guy really felt bad”: a criminal case is opened based on the fact of death of Ilya Afrosin from Krasnodar, who was, allegedly, beaten up at the police department
16 September 2021
The Court refused to soften the verdict of former police officer convicted for torture
16 September 2021
A citizen of Krasnodar died after a visit to the police department
11 September 2021
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case with regard to a police battery of a disabled
07 September 2021
The parents of the convict who hang himself in the Orenburg Penal Colony, applied to the ECHR
03 September 2021
The court declared applying physical force against a participant of a protest rally in Orenburg to be illegal
02 September 2021
The Bashkirian Court will examine the case of a Rosgvardiya officer who illegally detained a long-distance driver
30 August 2021
Today, the Committee Against Torture turns 21
30 August 2021
A resident of Moscow told human rights defenders he was beaten up by the police officers and taken to the police department in a car trunk