The IRCT calls for an end to the harassment of its Russian member centre, Committee Against Torture

The IRCT is deeply concerned at attempts to prosecute Igor Kalyapin, chairman of Russian member centre the Committee against Torture and head of the Joint Mobile Group in Chechnya, an NGO that investigates especially sensitive cases of human rights abuses. Kalyapin has revealed that he has been interrogated by the Special Investigation Department, and that criminal proceedings have been initiated by the Federal Security Service.

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