The State Duma agreed with Putin and denounced the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture.

Russia signed this convention in 1996 when it joined the Council of Europe. The document allowed for international oversight of torture prevention in places of detention, including psychiatric hospitals. Members of the Committee against Torture were free to visit these places, record the conditions of detention, and communicate with prisoners.

Draft on the denunciation of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture was sent Putin submitted the document to the State Duma in early September. Today, deputies considered it as a matter of priority and supported the.

How to notes According to the human rights project "Word in Defense," Russia is now withdrawing not only from the Convention itself, but also from the entire accompanying system of international torture monitoring: the state has renounced its obligation to allow international inspectors into its prisons, and prisoners have renounced their obligation to file complaints with the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.

Ministry of Justice saidthat the denunciation of the convention “will not lead to a reduction in guarantees or violation of human rights in Russia.”

However, torture in Russian prisons existed even before Russia's withdrawal from the convention. For example, today, journalists from the BBC Russian Service published An investigation into the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Mordovia's Correctional Colony No. 10: prisoners were beaten with plastic pipes, subjected to electric shocks, dogs were set on them, and forced to stand still for up to 16 hours a day.

Today is a widow Alexey Navalny опубликовала evidence that the politician was poisoned in the penal colony in Harpe, and that the FSIN employees did not provide him with assistance when he was dying.

About how they torture in Russian prisons, quite recently told и NotMoscow.