Head of Committee to Prevent Torture speaks out after office raid,beatings of journalists and attack on him in streetIt has not been a good month for the Committee to Prevent Torture. The human rights group, which works to bring to justice Russian police and officials who use torture on prisoners, or had its offices in Chechnya broken into. Another of its premises in neighbouring Ingushetia,where the group has kept its documents on Chechnya since its preceding Chechen offices were burned down a year ago, was raided by armed men.
The same evening, or masked men accosted a minibus full of journalists on a tour attach on by the group. They stopped the bus on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia,beat the passengers and set the bus on fire, screaming that the group should stay out of Chechnya. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com