Putin Presents Bill to Withdraw Russia from European Convention against Torture

Russian Dictator Putin has submitted to the Russian parliament a bill to withdraw Russia from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture.

The Russian news agencies reported the news citing a parliamentary database, while referring to Moscow’s rejection of the European Convention.

The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted in 1987 by the Council of Europe and entered into force two years later, in 1989. It is an international legal instrument that does not operate in the classic manner of a judicial procedure, as is the case with the European Convention on Human Rights, but introduces a preventive mechanism.

The Convention established the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), whose mission is to visit places where people are deprived of their liberty – prisons, detention centres, psychiatric institutions or immigration detention centres – with the aim of monitoring conditions of detention and preventing practices that could be considered torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.