Russia officially exits European treaty banning torture

The propaganda state agency TASS reported the information.

"To denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of November 26, 1987, and Protocols No. 1 and No. 2 to it of November 4, 1993, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Strasbourg on February 28, 1996," states the law signed by Putin.

Earlier, the head of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, had claimed that Moscow's work in the European Committee for the convention was allegedly blocked by the Council of Europe, because it had not allowed the election of a new committee member from the state since December 2023.

The authors of the document also noted that such actions by the Council "undermine the work of the mutual monitoring mechanism for compliance with international obligations in the field of protection against torture, which became the reason for the denunciation."

Russia signed the European Convention against Torture in 1996 and ratified it in 1998.

• On September 17, the Russian State Duma approved the bill from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to denounce the European Convention against Torture.