In addition, CAT publishes reports on systemic problems regarding the ineffectiveness of official investigations and prosecution of torture in Russia.

The Nizhegorodsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod found Alexei Ivanov, a CID operational officer, guilty of abuse of power.

According to Igor Kalyapin, the prosecutor's office considered CAT as "influencing state policy" because it was telling the public and the authorities about torture in police and about "the Investigative Committee’s poor performance when addressing such cases".

CAT’s annual picket on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and its publications about the event were also considered as political activities.

[5] In January 2015, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation designated CAT as a foreign agent organisation following the warning from the prosecutor's office.

[7] On 14 January 2016, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation designated the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and its associate the Bureau of Public Investigations as foreign agent organizations.

Igor Kalyapin mentioned the lack of people with suitable professional skills as the main reason for having offices in only seven regions.

It was Sergei Sergeievich Babinets, who had led the Committee’s offices all over the country, specifically in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Orenburg, for many years.

[19] On 10 June 2022, The Ministry of Justice of Russia included Committee Against Torture in the list of the unregistered public associations operating as foreign agencies.

The Head of CAT, Sergei Babinets, stated that the organisation could not agree with the Ministry of Justice’s verdict, however not being able to proceed with their activities as a foreign agency.

Sergei has named the liquidation of the Committee and the creation of the Crew a necessary step that would allow for the continuation of work on the unresolved issues, with 188 of them being active at the moment of elimination.

A public investigation also aims at making the state acknowledge such violations by establishing them through court proceedings, if there is sufficient evidence.

Applying to international human rights bodies is considered a measure of “last resort” that should be used only if all the domestic remedies have been exhausted.

CAT helps victims of torture to obtain justice and reparation by representing them in proceedings before investigative authorities, domestic courts and international human rights bodies.

Human rights activists note the exhausting effect of a lengthy official investigation and criminal cases against Mikheyev as factors that might had been aiming to force him to give up, as it eventually had happened to another victim, Ilya Frolov, who had retracted his statements and got a job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Detainees were brought to the Blagoveshchensk police department where they were forced to remain still in an uncomfortable body position for several hours.

Human rights defenders managed to gather evidence of the crimes and helped to initiate an official investigation against perpetrators.

Igor Kalyapin made a public statement, emphasising that "only the court should decide whether the relatives of the militants are responsible and deserve punishment by establishing the mens rea element and the degree of their participation in the crime".

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, joined the pressure campaign towards CAT in social media and on television.

A group of young men in surgical masks showed up at the picket that was held near the office by "public organisations and representatives of the civil society of Chechnya".

On 20 January 2022, Zarema Musayeva, Yangulbayev’s mother, was forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny by Chechen security forces.

On 23 August 2016, Gasangusenov brothers, 19-year-old Gasangusein and 17-year-old Nabi, who worked as shepherds, were shot dead during a special operation by law enforcement near Goor-Khindakh village, Shamilsky District, Dagestan.

[44] On 14 November 2017, a well-known Ingush athlete Albert Khamkhoyev was detained, beaten and tortured by police in Yandare village, Ingushetia.

Working on allegations of torture presents severe difficulties due to the reluctance and, in some cases, the active resistance of the investigators.

It covered salary and wages, work of guest attorneys, expert research costs, transportation, and medical treatment of victims.

[50] As of 2022, including the period after the title changing, CAT operates as an unregistered public organisation without a legal entity and without a bank account and doesn’t receive any funding.

During the ceremony Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (the chairman of the PACE during the time) has underlined that this small NGO made a strong contribution in the human rights defence, especially in the Northern Caucuses due to the competence and bravery of its members.

[51] Same year Igor Kalyapin and the project of "Joint Mobile Groups" by the Committee was awarded by Irish organisation Front Line Defenders.

Agency of Social Information distinguishes the Committee among organisations pursuing the justice while remarking that torture by the police remains a severe problem in Russia.

[55] The director of the Europe and Central Asia programmes Tatiana Lokshina said: "Kalyapin and his group are practically the only ones who dare do human rights work in Chechnya despite vicious threats and brazen attacks".