The Committee for the Prevention of Torture is a human rights organization that investigates cases of torture. It appeared in 2000 in order to induce the prosecutor's office to take active steps to disclose this type of crime and bring the perpetrators to criminal responsibility. The most famous cases of the Committee include the case of Aleksey Mikheev, who was severely beaten in the police department, and the investigation into the facts of the mass beating of residents of Blagoveshchensk. The Committee Against Torture is also involved in the protection of human rights in the North Caucasus.

This NGO was founded in 2016 by members of the 'Committee Against Torture', which was declared an 'foreign agent'.

At the moment, the 'Committee against Torture' works as an unregistered public organization without a legal entity and a current account.

Name

'The Committee for the Prevention of Torture'

Field of activity

Human rights organizations with a wide range of causes

Recognitions

Status

Foreign agent (NGO)

Year of recognition

2016

Inclusion date

14.01.2016

Reason for recognition

The Department of the Ministry of Justice considered foreign funding to be the fact that most of the members of the Committee received salaries in another organization, which was declared a 'foreign agent' - the 'Bureau of Public Investigations' - and paid contributions to the fund of the Committee.

Registry status

Excluded from registry (22.03.2018)

Chronology

14.01.2016
Addition to the list: Foreign agent (NGO)
22.03.2018
Exclusion from the list: Foreign agent (NGO)

Human Rights Activists