Russia’s government asked Putin on Aug. 26 to denounce the convention, the request was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
An explanatory note attached to the bill said Russia has had no representative on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture since 2023, because the Council of Europe blocked the selection process.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiha, condemned the move.
“The decision of the Russian government to denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment once again shows that Russia is a place of lawlessness where human life and dignity mean nothing,” he wrote on X.
Russia has been a party to the anti-torture convention since 1996.
In 2022, Moscow announced its exit from the Council of Europe and plans to denounce the organization’s key document, the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Source: RMF24, PAP