Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Newsletter
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Russia denounces the European Convention against Torture
18 Sep 2025 02:08 GMT
Russian authorities are set to withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, according to a decree signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
The convention, adopted in 1987 and …
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Russia’s State Duma votes to withdraw from European Convention against Torture
17 Sep 2025 17:33 GMT
The Russian State Duma has voted to withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, Interfax reported.
The bill to denounce the convention was introduced by President Vladimir Putin. An explanatory note said the decision was prompted …
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Russia Formally Withdraws from European Convention Against Torture
17 Sep 2025 12:36 GMT
Russia’s State Duma has unanimously approved a law denouncing the European Convention on the Prevention of Torture, completing Moscow’s withdrawal from the treaty three years after leaving the Council of Europe.
The initiative came from the Russian Cabinet …
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Families forced to disown 'militant' kin in Balochistan, rights body calls it state persecution
21 Sep 2025 11:49 GMT
… Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention Against Torture (CAT)," the HRCB stated …
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11 deportees from US of West African origin challenge their detention in Ghana
20 Sep 2025 00:43 GMT
… Removal” under the U.S. Convention Against Torture (CAT) proceedings, which forbids their …
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West Africans deported by US sue Ghana for 'unlawful detention'
19 Sep 2025 16:11 GMT
… returned to Gambia under the Convention against Torture. I told them [Ghanaian immigration …
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Budna Sues Government of Belize Over Alleged Abduction and Torture
19 Sep 2025 15:52 GMT
… on Human Rights, and the Convention Against Torture. Budna is seeking: Declarations of …
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Joseph Budna Sues Government Over Alleged Kidnapping and Expulsion to Guatemala
19 Sep 2025 03:04 GMT
… on Human Rights (ACHR), the Convention Against Torture (CAT), and the Convention on …
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11 deportees from US sue Ghana over alleged unlawful detenti...
18 Sep 2025 23:06 GMT
… .S. proceedings linked to the Convention Against Torture, which bars their return to …
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EU parliamentarians express satisfaction with Bangladesh’s HR efforts
18 Sep 2025 22:51 GMT
… the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.
Foreign Adviser Touhid further outlined …