CaT informs MoJ about self-liquidation

The human rights organization "Committee against Torture" (CaT), which was put earlier into the registry of foreign agents, has sent a notification about self-liquidation to the Department for the Nizhny Novgorod Region of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the CaT, liquidated because of putting into the registry of foreign agents, will be replaced by the "Committee on Prevention of Torture" (CPT). The new organization will continue the previous work in Chechnya, its chairman Igor Kalyapin said on July 28.

The documents on liquidation of the CaT were sent on August 4 to the MoJ of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, where the CaT had been registered.

In January this year, the Russian MoJ, based on the presentation of the Prosecutor's Office of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, put the interregional public organization CaT into the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs) that perform functions of a foreign agent. The CaT received the above presentation on December 29, 2014. The Prosecutor's Office decided that the CaT was engaged in political activities; and it was found to be a sufficient ground for regarding the NPO as a foreign agent.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.