“The Committee against Torture” reborn under a new name – Rosbalt.RU

MOSCOW, August 2. At the conference, the interregional public organization “Committee against Torture” (CAT) on Saturday, it was decided to liquidate.

“Today, August 1, 2015, participants of INGO” Committee against Torture “unanimously decided to dissolve the organization “- reported at the check point.

Officially, the Ministry of Justice will be notified on August 3.

At the opening session of the conference, which was held on July 24, the chairman of the” Committee “Igor Kalyapin was requested to prepare report on the financial and property status of the organization.

“In the course of today’s meeting Kalyapin reported that the organization there is no property and own funds, and then made a proposal to eliminate the re-organization. The conference unanimously voted” for ” , – the report says.

All the employees go in the “Anti-torture Committee”, whose chairman was elected Kalyapin. According to the former head gearbox, the new organization will live on the contributions and donations of Russian citizens.

As reported Kalyapin, the only reason that led to the closure, was the inability to work within the framework of the law on “foreign agents”. “The Committee against Torture,” made in the register of foreign agents in January of this year. Later, the organization tried to appeal the decision, but the court of the Soviet district of Nizhny Novgorod Human Rights Defenders denied.

The Committee against Torture, established in 2000. The headquarters of the organization is located in Nizhny Novgorod, representatives acted in the Republic of Mari El and Bashkortostan. PPC also has offices in Moscow and Orenburg region. In Chechnya, under the auspices of the committee working mobile group of human rights activists.

In early June, unknown ransacked the office of the committee in Grozny. On the given fact criminal case, although this Chechen law enforcers stated that the grounds for the opening of the case there. Mayhem in the office was preceded by a meeting at the office of human rights defenders. In the mobile group argued that at the time of pogrom the police did not respond to their treatment.