Election of the head of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee

November 18 at 16:00 at the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin on Myasnitskaya will host the first meeting of the new Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow. Members of the PMC will have to approve the regulations and elect a chairman. The further fate of independent control in the Moscow pre-trial detention center and police department depends on the outcome of this meeting.

Human rights activist Valery Borshchev, who headed the PMC of the previous composition, may lose his seat . claims to be the chairman Anton Tsvetkov from "Officers of Russia" . He hopes to change the regulations so that human rights activists visit places of temporary detention only with the approval of the head of the PMC.