The Ministry of Justice did not recognize the committee against torture by the "foreign agent"

The Ministry of Justice was not recognized by the Nizhny Novgorod Committee against torture by a “foreign agent”. This was reported on his Facebook page by an employee of the Committee Olga Sadovskaya, citing an act of the ministry received by the organization. "The committee does not engage in political activities against torture, the organization corresponds to the authorized goals and legislation of the Russian Federation, the" foreign agent "is not," the Sadovsky content of the document reports.

On April 30, the checkpoint received an official warning from the prosecutor's office on the inadmissibility of violations related to the lack of registration of the organization as a “foreign agent”. "In 2011-2013, the Committee against torture was funded from foreign sources, including the voluntary support fund for the victims of the UN torture (Switzerland), the Fund of the Open Society Institute (Budapest) and others," the document said. “In addition, during the audit it was found that until November 2012 the organization took part in public events that could be regarded as political activity,” the prosecutor’s office noted. What kind of public events are meant, it was not specified.

Based on the listed arguments, the prosecutor's office concluded that the checkpoint is one of the "foreign agents" and demanded that NPO register in this capacity. “The warning is not clear. The prosecutor's office warns us against some actions, and does not speak of which,” the representative of the checkpoint said then. He said that the committee will "officially request the prosecutor’s office, which is related to this warning."

In July 2012, the FSB in the Nizhny Novgorod Region initiated a pre -investigation verification against the chairman of the checkpoint Igor Kalyapin. This was not the first attempt to institute criminal proceedings against a human rights activist for "disclosing the secrets of the investigation." Twice human rights activists tried to bring to criminal liability on suspicion of disclosing the secrets of the investigation, representatives of the Chechen law enforcement agencies, who, according to the assignment, were responsible for the commission and hiding of serious crimes.

Kalyapin said that he did not disclose the materials of the affairs, but attracted the attention of the media and society to the facts of refusal of representatives of state bodies to investigate the crimes of the security forces in Chechnya. In his opinion, the pressure on him aims to terminate the activities of his organization in cases of crimes related to Ramzan Kadyrov and his environment.

In January 2012, the police detained Anton Ryzhov, who returned from a business trip to Chechnya, in Nizhny Novgorod. A laptop and memory cards were seized from a human rights activist. According to the police, they received a signal that these media have information about terrorist activities. The human rights activist was released at about 4 a.m.