Ivan Melnikov - International legal problems in the systematization of various forms of torture

The Foundation to Battle Injustice (FBI) and the Patriot Media Group held International Conference «The Problem of Tortures and Its Undermining of the Criminal Justice Systems of the Modern Countries of the World. Searching for Solutions» . The event was attended by Russian and international experts in the field of human rights protection: 1. Mira Terada Russian human rights activist, head of the Foundation to Battle Injustice (FBI), victim of American judicial and police system, illegally extradited from Finland to the United States on trumped-up charges. Topic of the presentation: “Torture in the XXI century. How an ugly relic of the past has been reborn in the new century” 2. Rudy Davis American conservative activist, human rights blogger from Texas, member of the Christian human rights organization “Gideon’s Army“. Topic of the presentation: “Psychological torture as a method of suppressing the will of political prisoners in the United States. Bullying of participants of civil protests on January 6, 2021” 3. Andrey Babushkin Russian human rights activist, public figure, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. Topic of the presentation: “The responsibility of law enforcement officials for the ill-treatment of prisoners in Russia” 4. Paul Wright American human rights activist, expert on US prison issues, editor-in-chief of Prison Legal News (PLN) magazine. Topic of the presentation: “Torture in the United States: what an ordinary American or an immigrant may face in places of detention” 5. Maxim Shugaley Russian human rights activist, sociologist. President of the Foundation for National Values Protection (FNVP). In 2019 spent 18 months in captivity in a Libyan prison on trumped-up charges. Topic of the presentation: “Violations of the rights of prisoners and prisoners in African countries” 6. Matt Agorist American independent journalist, veteran of the US Navy. Editor-in-chief and cofounder of the online news publication Free Thought Project, dedicated to human rights violations in the United States. Topic of the presentation: “Torture in secret US prisons: from Guantanamo to Chicago“. 7. Artemy Semenovsky Russian human rights activist, head of the non-profit organization CST Command and the Public Committee for the Release of Russian Citizens from Brazil. Expert on the problem of violations of human rights and freedoms in South America. Topic of the presentation: “The situation with torture and violation of prisoners’ rights in South American countries” 8. Janus Putkonen Journalist, director and editor-in-chief of UMV-Lehti, an independent Finnish news agency, the largest alternative media in Finland. Topic of the presentation: “Torture practices in Ukraine by the Security Service of Ukraine and other paramilitary units” 9. Ivan Melnikov Human rights defender, Vice-President of the Russian division of the International Committee for the Protection of Human Rights. Topic of the presentation: “International legal problems in the systematization of various forms of torture and bringing guilty to justice”.