ARMENIA JOINED UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.06.2006 16:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia has jointed the UN Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. As
reported by Head of the Department for Information and Public Relations
of the Ombudsman Grisha Grigoryan, this was possible after Armenian
Parliament ratified the Facultative Protocol of the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

In Grigoryan’s words, by that provision Armenia joins the Convention
participant states, thus agreeing with all its provisions. The
facultative Protocol of the UN Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted on
18th of December 2002 and will come into effect on June 22, 2006.

According to article 17 of the Convention, each of the participant
states binds itself to form an independent body to prevent domestic
torture in a year since its entry into force. Mechanism to prevent
torture should be applied in all venues of imprisonment, as well as
psychiatric clinics without any hindrances, reports Novosti-Armenia.