Russia may break the agreement of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a document proposing to submit to Parliament a draft law on the dissolution of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The official document was posted on the website of the legal information portal.

"To approve and submit to the President of the Russian Federation [Vladimir Putin] for submission to the State Duma <...> a proposal to denounce <...> measures for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," the document says.

It is specified that the convention was adopted in 1987. The government appealed to the President with a proposal not only to renounce Russia from the convention, but also from its additional protocols adopted in 1993.

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On July 30, the UN confirmed the torture of Russian prisoners of war by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). It clarifies that prisoners of war were subjected to beatings, dog attacks, mock executions, humiliation and other forms of ill-treatment.

On May 30, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that crimes committed against Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine were comparable to torture in Nazi concentration camps. She noted that it is particularly alarming that the ill-treatment of prisoners of war is systemic and, according to the testimony of the prisoners themselves, bullying is sometimes carried out under the supervision or literally with the approval of Ukrainian officials.

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