The world celebrates March 15 every year International Day Against Police Brutality. The event was jointly launched by the organizations “Collective Against Police Brutality” and “Black Flag” in 1997. After the beating of children by Swiss police in 2000, Day Against Police Brutality associated with this sad event.

Unfortunately, the abuse of power by the police is a common phenomenon – there are constant cases of psychological and physical aggression, repression, corruption, sexual violence, etc.

International Day Against Police Brutality aims to draw the attention of society and authorities to the problem of illegal police activity.