News
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
03 February 2023
The Investigative Committee in Mocsow will check the actions of the police officers during the search in the «League of Voters», in the course of which activist Vladimir Yegorov got a craniocerebral injury
02 February 2023
The Supreme Court in Chechnya remanded for retrial the case on declaring the wife of abducted Salman Tepsurkaev a victim
25 January 2023
The ECHR awarded 52 thousand euro to Chechen activist Ruslan Kutaev. He told human rights defenders that he was tortured after Ramzan Kadyrov personally ordered that
27 December 2022
Russia did not answer the questions on tortures and extrajudicial killings posed in the UN report
22 December 2022
In the Nizhny Novgorod region an ambulance was called to court for a man who claimed during the hearing that he was beaten up at the police department
16 December 2022
17-year old resident of Anapa told human rights defenders that the police officers in the Department of the Interior threatened him with a gun, beat him up and forced him to confess of theft
06 December 2022
The court in Orenburg doubled the amount of compensation for a torture victim. Roman Chikviladze will receive 300 thousand rubles instead of previously awarded 150 thousand
05 December 2022
The ECHR awarded 26 thousand euro to a participant of march «For Fair Elections» that took place in 2012. During apprehension, he got a brain concussion
02 December 2022
In Nizhny Novgorod, the court sentenced to jail time the police officers who beat up the detained and planted mephedrone on him
30 November 2022
Resident of Saint-Petersburg described how during the rally against mobilization the police officers broke his arm and took him to the police department, where he slept on the floor for two nights
17 November 2022
The court quashed the verdict of the police officers who broke the leg of a resident of Krasnodar. They mistook him for a criminal when he was getting over a fence of his own house
03 November 2022
«I still cannot tell my daughter that her father died. I don’t know how». Together with the CAT lawyers, a resident of Saint-Petersburg is trying to find out why her husband died after the apprehension and hospitalization
19 October 2022
«I will make you respect me and my subordinates!» Teacher from Moscow says he was beaten up at the police department
18 October 2022
«I was striken down to the floor. I hit my head and lost consciousness». «Golos» movement coordinator Vladimir Yegorov described how law- enforcement officers applied force against him during the search.
14 October 2022
The ECHR awarded 45 thousand euro to a resident of Sochi. He told human rights defenders that when he was in the 11 th form, he was taken to the police department where he was beaten up, and that provoked a fit of epilepsy