News
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
21 April 2023
The ECHR awarded 76 500 euros to twenty participants of a Moscow rally for fair elections, including our applicant Mikhail Fayto
21 April 2023
The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic took sides with human rights defenders in the case of torture of Timur Debishev
19 April 2023
«You ought to trust us.» A resident of Sochi claims that he was beaten by the policemen while asking to show their identification
14 April 2023
A resident of Moscow ended up in the hospital with a fractured rib after a police raid at the exhibition of artist Sasha Skochilenko
03 April 2023
«As they began to drag me across the floor, I felt a crack in my right hand.» In Moscow, the Investigative Committee launched an inquiry into the actions of the policemen who broke the arm of a stylist
31 March 2023
The court in Ufa ordered to pay 200 thousand rubles to a truck driver as compensation for the beating by the officer of the Russian Guard
29 March 2023
The court in Orenburg acquitted the police officers charged with beating and threatening to rape a detainee
28 March 2023
The European Court of Human Rights today has at once communicated 37 complaints lodged on behalf of torture victims
13 March 2023
In Orenburg, the Prosecutor requested that the three police officers are sentenced to 6.5 years of penal colony, each. They are charged with the battery of an apprehended person and threatening to rape him
09 March 2023
A resident of Kuban has been kept in Pre-Trial Detention Facility for the fourth year on suspicion of a murder of an acquaintance of his. The man thinks that the criminal case is forged and accuses the police officers of tortures
27 February 2023
«A police officer kicked me in the legs and I fell». The court declared legal the dismissal of a claim to open a criminal case based on the application from the Krasnodar resident
17 February 2023
A 21-year old Chechen resident told human rights defenders that the police officers were torturing him with electricity and kept him in the garage. The Investigative Department has dismissed the claim to open a criminal case for the tenth time
08 February 2023
The Prosecutor’s Office declared illegal the actions of the head of the Investigative Committee Investigative Department, who forwarded the crime reports on Zarema Musaeva case from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya