Back Council of Europe anti-torture Committee discusses situation in the North Caucasian region with the Russian authorities

Representatives of the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) had talks last week in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don with senior Russian officials. The talks, held from 26 to 28 January 2005, focussed on the CPT’s findings during its most recent visit to the North Caucasian region, which was organised from 24 November to 1 December 2004 and covered places of deprivation of liberty in the Chechen Republic and Ingushetia.

The CPT’s representatives had discussions with Dmitri KOZAK, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, Sergei SHCHADRIN, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Yuri YALUNIN, Deputy Minister of Justice, Alexander SAVENKOV, Chief Military Prosecutor, Alexei KUZYURA, Head of the International Relations Department in the Federal Security Service, and Vladimir PARSHIKOV, Director of the Department for International Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They also met Vladimir LUKIN, Commissioner on Human Rights of the Russian Federation.

The CPT’s representatives were Silvia CASALE, President of the CPT, Mauro PALMA and Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI, members of the CPT in respect of Italy and Switzerland, together with Trevor STEVENS (Executive Secretary) and Petya NESTOROVA (Head of Unit) of the Committee’s Secretariat.

01/02/2005
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