The “Committee against Torture” announced its self-liquidation due to its status as a “foreign agent”

On June 11, the “Committee against Torture” decided to self-destruct due to the recognition of the project as a “foreign agent”. This was announced by the chairman of the organization Sergei Babinets on his Facebook.

On June 10, the Ministry of Justice entered the "Committee" into the register of unregistered public associations - "foreign agents".

“We do not want to continue working and at the same time label ourselves as “foreign agents”. We consider this term an insult and slander,” Babinets explained.

In a conversation with SOTA, the former press secretary of the "Committee against Torture" Natalya Kuryokhina said that 188 cases on which work has already begun, the project participants are going to complete.

“Apparently, the authorities give a signal that torture is becoming (or has already become) part of state policy and is not a problem. Here I would like to remind you about the Constitution, where torture is prohibited (for now),” Babinets wrote.

• In 2015, the “Committee against Torture” was already recognized as a non-profit organization – “foreign agent”, after which the NPO declared self-liquidation and soon the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” appeared. In 2016, he was also recognized as an NGO “foreign agent”, in 2017 the NGO again self-liquidated.