Orlov: “I Hope that Civil Society Experts will be Involved in the Elaboration of the Body in Charge of Investigating into Police Crimes”
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Orlov: “I Hope that Civil Society Experts will be Involved
in the Elaboration of the Body in Charge of Investigating into
Police Crimes”
On March 21, 2012, a group of human rights organizations – “Committee against Torture”, “Agora”, “Public Verdict”, “Memorial”, “Civic Assistance”, “Moscow Helsinki Group”, the movement “For Human Rights”, the “Youth Human Rights Movement”, “Groza” and others, sent a letter to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation, proposing to create within the IC an independent body, which would be in charge of investigating into crimes perpetrated by officers of the Ministry of Interior, the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Penitentiary Service. According to human rights activists it would be the first necessary step to solve the problem of police brutality (http://www.civilpetitions.org/campaigns/petition/view/number/15/ in Russian).
On March, 28, Bastrykin has instructed to work on that proposal. The official representative of the IC Vladimir Markin declared that “in connection with the internet petition appealing to the chairman of the IC and signed by a number of human rights organizations, Batrykin has ordered to work on the issue of creating within the IC a subcommittee focused on investigating into complaints about the work of law enforcement agencies and into criminal cases directed against policemen and officials of other law enforcement bodies” (Interfax).
“We are pleased that our letter provoked such a rapid reaction” commented Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”.
“Nevertheless it is not clear how and who will work on our proposal. This process could be absolutely opaque to the society. It is crucial to involve experts from the civil society in the elaboration (of the new body)”.
“Our proposal is not confrontational. On the contrary, concerning this question, the leadership of the IC and we are allies”.
“Before starting we should seriously elaborate the conception of this independent investigative body that, within the IC, will be in charge of investigating into police crimes. Without this previous step, any hope of successfully fighting police impunity would be pointless”.
March 29, 2012
On March 21, 2012, a group of human rights organizations – “Committee against Torture”, “Agora”, “Public Verdict”, “Memorial”, “Civic Assistance”, “Moscow Helsinki Group”, the movement “For Human Rights”, the “Youth Human Rights Movement”, “Groza” and others, sent a letter to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation, proposing to create within the IC an independent body, which would be in charge of investigating into crimes perpetrated by officers of the Ministry of Interior, the Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Penitentiary Service. According to human rights activists it would be the first necessary step to solve the problem of police brutality (http://www.civilpetitions.org/campaigns/petition/view/number/15/ in Russian).
On March, 28, Bastrykin has instructed to work on that proposal. The official representative of the IC Vladimir Markin declared that “in connection with the internet petition appealing to the chairman of the IC and signed by a number of human rights organizations, Batrykin has ordered to work on the issue of creating within the IC a subcommittee focused on investigating into complaints about the work of law enforcement agencies and into criminal cases directed against policemen and officials of other law enforcement bodies” (Interfax).
“We are pleased that our letter provoked such a rapid reaction” commented Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”.
“Nevertheless it is not clear how and who will work on our proposal. This process could be absolutely opaque to the society. It is crucial to involve experts from the civil society in the elaboration (of the new body)”.
“Our proposal is not confrontational. On the contrary, concerning this question, the leadership of the IC and we are allies”.
“Before starting we should seriously elaborate the conception of this independent investigative body that, within the IC, will be in charge of investigating into police crimes. Without this previous step, any hope of successfully fighting police impunity would be pointless”.
March 29, 2012
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