News
17 February 2011
Committee Against Torture: Bashkirian militia officers are ready to serve in the police
16 February 2011
Orenburg: Court quashes a lenient verdict for the policeman responsible for murder
15 February 2011
The Committee Against Torture conducts a workshop for lawyers in Ufa
09 February 2011
The Chechen police ignores Russian law and is not controlled by the federal authority
08 February 2011
The Committee Against Torture helps militia officers from Orenburg to become policemen
08 February 2011
Two officers of the Alsheyevsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria face the court
27 December 2010
The case against the police captain accused of beating a detainee is being heard in Nizhny Novgorod
21 December 2010
A Nizhny Novgorod resident claims police abuse in Arzamas: law enforcers have crushed his toes
20 December 2010
Police officer Simukhin from Bashkiria is sentenced to 10 years in an increased security penal colony for killing a school teacher
16 December 2010
Mikhail Skobelev abused by the Sormovo police claims that “governor’s people” put pressure on him
14 December 2010
Lawyers of the Interregional Committee Against Torture are included in Public Monitoring Commissions for detention facilities in various Russian regions
14 December 2010
A police lieutenant-colonel form Buguruslan is sentenced to five years of imprisonment for killing a detainee
10 December 2010
Today the Committee Against Torture has filed a series of motions under Mikhail Skobelev’s case to prevent the investigation sabotage
10 December 2010
In Orenburg region the verdict for two policemen who tortured a man to death will soon be proclaimed
10 December 2010
December 10 — Human Rights Day
09 December 2010
The case about police abuse in respect of the Sormovo cemetery director is submitted to the Special Investigation Department of the Nizhny Novgorod regional Investigation Administration
07 December 2010
The Council of Europe has supported the reform of the Russian Ministry of the Interior
03 December 2010
The Nizhny Novgorod regional court has found the claims of the police against the Kstovo teenager mutilated in the local Directorate of the Interior unlawful
01 December 2010
The state will pay 110 000 rubles as compensation of moral damage to two residents of Blagoveschensk, Bashkiria, ill-treated during a police raid
01 December 2010
The case of the police captain charged with cruel beatings goes to court