The Public Chamber approved the new compositions Public Supervisory Commissions in 43 regions. Moskovsky Komsomolets columnist Eva Merkacheva, who was a member of the capital's PMC, noted that she herself, as well as other journalists and human rights activists, were not included in the lists.
“A huge number of real human rights activists have applied to join the new composition HE TO. Not one (!) of them passed,” writes Merkacheva.
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The founder of the Team Against Torture Igor Kalyapin, director of the Moscow Helsinki Group Svetlana Astrakhantseva, co-chairman of the organization Valery Borshchev and former secretary of the PMC were not included in the new commissions Moscow Ivan Melnikov.
Ekaterina Sazhneva, a journalist from Moskovsky Komsomolets, and Boris Klin, a former columnist for Izvestia, who was a member of the Moscow PMC, were not accepted to the commission near Moscow.
At the same time, in the Kirov region, as noted by Merkacheva, the former chairman of the commission, priest Vladimir Putintsev, and members of the previous compositions, Vladimir Tashirev and Sergey Bronnikov, were included in the new composition.
Putintsev, after a visit to the colonies of the region in 2021, members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights refused to check on prisoners' complaints of torture and rape. Tashirev and Bronnikov, according to the journalist, in exchange for insulin, demanded that the Kirov convicts with diabetes “calm down” the prisoner who complained about the conditions. » class=»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />You won't get through. OVD vs PMC