The Committee for the Prevention of Torture will open a representative office in Novosibirsk

The non-profit organization “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” is opening a representative office in Novosibirsk, writes Taiga.info.

“We want to open in Novosibirsk, because we don’t have any regions beyond the Urals and it seems that in Russia they torture only in Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Moscow and Chechnya, but this is not so. To increase efficiency, we are going to Siberia. Why in Novosibirsk, and not in Tomsk, Omsk or Barnaul? Because civic activity is quite strong in Novosibirsk. It’s impossible to imagine thousands of people in the square anywhere else after the cancellation of the performance,” the organization’s lawyer Dmitry Utukin told the publication.

He added that the Committee for the Prevention of Torture is looking forward to cooperation with local lawyers and journalists.

The “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” (formerly the “Committee against Torture”) provides legal assistance to victims of torture by police officers and the Federal Penitentiary Service. The organization's lawyers independently conduct public investigations and use their results in legal proceedings.