Law enforcement officials inspect Public Verdict
MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - The foundation Public Verdict was the next human rights organization to which law enforcement officials came to conduct an inspection on Monday.
"They are interested in all areas in which we work," Oleg Novikov, a representative of Public Verdict, told Interfax on Monday.
"They are looking at documents, contracts with lawyers, they are studying our work with victims in Vladivostok, they are looking through our publishing products," Novikov said.
Public Verdict specializes on the protection of people hurt by law enforcement agencies' actions.
Earlier on Monday, law enforcement officials came to inspect the Moscow offices of two leading human rights organizations: the Russian office of Amnesty International (AI) and the movement For Human Rights. The human rights society Memorial was inspected last week.
"Inspections are going on all over the country. It can indeed be regarded as pressure on civil society. The inspections are most likely linked to the law on foreign agents, although we reiterated more than once that we are not involved in political activities," Novikov said.
Responding to a question about the inspection conducted in the Public Verdict office, he said: "There are no complaints. The inspectors are polite."
