Source: HRO.org (info)

• Moscow city and the Moscow region  The Prosecutor's Office  Security services  Persecution of activists

The head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, has written to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and the head of the Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, about the case of opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhaev, who has alleged that he was abducted and tortured, Ekho of St. Petersburg reports, citing Interfax.

"I sent letters to the Prosecutor General and to the chair of the Russian Investigative Committee asking them to personally oversee the situation with L. Razvozzhaev, this highly irregular story of his abduction and subsequent ‘confession ‘,” said Mikhail Fedotov.

Mikhail Fedotov says that in the letter he asked Aleksandr Bastrykin to arrange for members of the Presidential Council on Human Rights to meet Leonid Razvozzhaev to discuss its findings at a round table, along with representatives of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office and Investigative Committee.

"This form of public ovesight falls squarely within the established framework for interaction between the Council and the Investigative Committee. In the past the Investigative Committee has invited members of the Presidential Council on Human Rights to take part in the interrogation of people held as suspects in the case of the death of Sergei Magnitsky. It would also be possible to use this form of public oversight in this case," said the head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov.