News
19 September 2023
«There are always problems with you, human rights defenders.» A participant of the «Golos» movement stated that during a search the policemen stepped on his back and punched him in the back of the head
18 September 2023
Two young children were left alone at home after their father was arrested. The man indicated that he was beaten all night at the police station, and his relatives only found out about the children in the morning
12 September 2023
The ECHR adopted its judgment in the case of Maksim Lapunov — he was the first who publicly revealed the persecution of LGBT-people in Chechnya
08 September 2023
In Moscow, a woman spent the night in a «stinking cell». The police did not let her go home to get medicine needed after cancer surgery
28 August 2023
«The policemen hit me on the back with a chair.» A guard from the Krasnodar region ended up in a hospital with a head injury after visiting the police station
24 August 2023
«The policemen struck me in the head and suffocated me.» A 21-year-old resident of the Moscow region claims that the officers tortured him to confess to selling drugs
22 August 2023
«If I’m not at home — well, I don’t know, sorry…». The Chechen Ombudsman told the Crew’s lawyers whether he was ready to guarantee the safety of Elena Milashina during her work in the region
18 August 2023
A poetry writer from St. Petersburg applied to the Crew Against Torture after being forced into a psychiatric hospital with the involvement of policemen
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