Interview with Oleg Khabibrakhmanov, Committee Against Torture, Nizhny Novgorod, 11 July 2018

Abstract

The following interview was conducted with one of the leading investigators of the Nizhny Novgorod based NGO “Committee against torture”, on his experience as a member of the the ONK (in Russian obshchestvennaia nabliudatel'naia komissia): a regional Public Monitoring Committee in detention facilities. ONK were officially created by a Federal law in 2009 as a civic institutionalized mechanism, part of what is called in Russia Civic Control (obshchestvennyi kontrol), to monitor prisons and oth...