The Russian Ministry of Justice has filed a lawsuit to liquidate Lev Ponomarev's organization Hot Line, a human rights activist, SOTAvision reports . The hotline is investigating torture and helping prisoners.

The Moscow City Court registered the liquidation claim on July 15. Employees of the "Hot Line" found out about this by chance, having found the relevant information on the website of the court. On the same day, July 15, they received the results of the Hot Line check, which had previously been initiated at the request of a United Russia deputy Yevgeny Fedorov.

The regional organization for the promotion of human rights "Hot Line" was established in 1998. After Ponomarev’s movement “For Human Rights” was liquidated in 2019, the “Hot Line” took over his work. The organization was able to achieve the initiation of criminal cases on the facts of torture of more than thirty prisoners.

Ponomarev is one of the first five people entered by the Ministry of Justice into the register of “foreign agents”. He, as well as journalists Lyudmila Savitskaya, Sergei Markelov and Denis Kamalyagin, and civil activist Daria Apakhonchich were included there on December 28, 2020.