Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the "Human Rights" prize to a Russian non-governmental organization "Committee Against Torture" of Nizhny Novgorod for investigations of crimes in Chechnya. The respective decision was officially announced on April, 12, within the framework of the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg. 

"The Russian Human Rights activists have carried out independent investigations of violations of human rights in Chechnya in this way contributing greatly into the cause of calling all those guilty of violations of human rights to account", the resolution of PACE runs.

The solemn awarding ceremony will be held at July session, ITAR-TASS reports.

The "Committee Against Torture" was established in Nizhny Novgorod in 2000 for rendering legal and medical aid to victims of torture and inhuman and humiliating treatment of people by law enforcement bodies. There are branches of ...

The Chechen refugees now living in Turkey, among whom there are members of the Chechen separatist wing, are visiting by envoys of the current Chechen authorities, in particular, Shaa Turlaev, a former fighter and now Kadyrov's adviser, who force them to return to Chechnya, reports the European journalist Mark Broad. The information about such visits was confirmed by one of the refugees living in Turkey, who asked to call him Ruslan for the reasons of personal safety. According to his story, the authorities of Turkey refuse to investigate murders of Chechen refugees.

Ruslan told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that over the past two years, visits of former compatriots to the Chechen refugees living in Turkey became more frequent. On February 28, visitors came to the house of the former Chechen MP Doku Amagov.

They asked Amagov about what he was doing in Turkey ...

A book on kidnapping in Chechen Republic and the lives of kidnapped people's relatives and families of victims of tortures is going to be published in England. Its author is Mantas Kvedaravichius, Lithuanian producer who has shot the documentary "Barzakh".

"I am an anthropologist and so I am writing about tortures and their correlation with state authority and human emotions, - Mantas Kvedaravichius said to "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. - This book is being prepared for publishing in England, Cambridge University. Its theme is tortures. It will be presented in the light of the events going on in the Russian Federation". 

See earlier reports: "A film about disappearance of people in Chechnya will be shown at Kino Pavasaris in Lithuania," "Kvedaravichyus: film about kidnappings in Chechnya was made by hidden camera," "FSB forbids Danish photographer who cooperated with Estemirova to enter Russia."