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14 February 2022
Resident of Sochi told that the police officers were torturing him with electrical shocker to force him to provide information on the whereabouts of a crypto businessman
11 February 2022
Forcible delivery of Zarema Musayeva to Checnnya: Timeline
10 February 2022
The Committee Against Torture calculated how many times the police officers apologized to the victims
10 February 2022
The Committee Against Torture will help the Krasnodar journalist who complained of a police battery
08 February 2022
The Committee Against Torture started a check of a complaint of a battery of a 17-year old girl by Drug Enforcement officers
04 February 2022
The Committee Against Torture submitted applications to the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Investigative Committee of Russia with a request to check the legality of the statements made by the leaders of the Chechen Republic
02 February 2022
The Investigative Committee of the Orenburg region refused to open a torture case for the tenth time. The court declared the last dismissal to be legal
31 January 2022
The Committee Against Torture obliged Russia to conduct an effective investigation of the torture complaint submitted by a resident of Nizhny Novgorod in 2005
27 January 2022
“The Article That Is Not There”: the Committee Against Torture, Zebra Hero and SETTERS issued a special project against violence by law-enforcement officers
26 January 2022
Resident of Nalchik, whose thigh was pierced with a bodkin by a police officer, submitted an application to the ECHR
25 January 2022
A citizen of Uzbekistan, beaten up by the police officers, submitted an application to the ECHR
19 January 2022
The Committee Against Torture submitted eight applications of the Krasnodar Territory residents to the ECHR
14 January 2022
The Orenburg court lightened the verdict of the police officers who were torturing the apprehended with electrical shocker to force a confession of a theft of five thousand rubles
11 January 2022
The ECHR awarded 52 thousand euros a resident of Chechnya who was forced under tortures to confess of murder
27 December 2021
Statement of the Russian human rights defenders with regard to the draft legislation brought in the State Duma
24 December 2021
The Investigative Committee refused to check the circumstances of the prosecution of journalist Irina Slavina who took her own life
23 December 2021
The court declared illegal the dismissal of a criminal case against a police officer who twisted the woman’s arms and called her “an animal”
21 December 2021
A resident of Nizhny Novgorod is sent to the penal colony for violence applied against a police officer. Now, an independent expert confirmed that he was beaten up during the apprehension
20 December 2021
A draft legislation on toughening the punishment for tortures is submitted to the State Duma. Igor Kalyapin and Dmitry Kazakov provided their evaluation of the draft
16 December 2021
The Orenburg police officers will face court for the eleven years old torture case