Ukraine condemned the decision of the aggressor country of russia to denounce the European Convention on the Prevention of Torture, calling this step a recognition of the systematic practice of torture and an attempt to avoid responsibility for crimes against human rights. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"This step is in fact a confession of a crime - a systematic practice of torture and an attempt to avoid responsibility for gross violations of human rights. Modern russia is a territory of lawlessness and humiliation of human dignity. The decision to withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of Torture only consolidates this reality and finally puts russia among the countries for which the price of human life and dignity is zero," the message says.
The Foreign Ministry noted that the convention contains a preventive mechanism for both regular and surprise visits to places of detention by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (ECPT/CPT) in order to directly verify the conditions of detention and treatment of people.
"Only the procedural provisions of the Convention, which do not provide for the forced exclusion of a state party, allowed russia to formally remain a party to this important international legal document. At the same time, russia was actually destroying the mechanism of the Convention: it did not take real part in the work of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and did not allow the Committee's experts to enter its territory to study and document the situation with torture," the ministry said.
The ministry recalled that this fits into the broader practice of the russian federation of blocking independent access, in particular, denying full access to places of detention for the International Committee of the Red Cross, including places where prisoners of war are held.
"All this indicates that russia is systematically "closing" any channels of international control, trying to hide from the world the terrible truth about the system of torture created in the country, and is regaining its notorious reputation as a "prison empire," the Foreign Ministry says.
Ukraine insists on the earliest possible use of international mechanisms for bringing to justice and calls on the international community to act actively and without delay.
Recall that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called the opening of the ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol to foreign ships "worthless."
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