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Russia leaves European anti-torture convention
The New Indian Express
|September 30, 2025
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law to pull Russia out of a European antitorture convention, as Moscow extricates itself from Western bodies it was kicked out of or quit over its offensive on Ukraine.
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Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, an international human-rights monitor, in March 2022, though it had technically remained a party to its European Convention for the Prevention of Torture.
The landmark agreement aims to strengthen the rights of persons deprived of their liberty and empowers monitors to visit prisons and detention centres.
On Monday, Putin signed a law denouncing the convention.
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