The Russian government has proposed denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a resolution to submit a corresponding proposal to the President of the Russian Federation for submission to the State Duma.
The document states that Russia will withdraw from the convention and the protocols adopted thereto.
In the text of the document, the government refers to its right to propose terminating the international treaty to which Russia has joined. By law, the submission must include justification for the appropriateness of terminating the treaty and an assessment of its consequences; the published document does not contain such information.
The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture was approved by the Council of Europe in 1987. Russia ratified it in 1996, when it became a member of the Council.
In 2022, Russia announced its withdrawal from the Council of Europe, and the Council announced its expulsion due to the large-scale war against Ukraine. After that, Moscow began to withdraw from international treaties related to the organization. In particular, Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights and refused to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, denounced the conventions for the protection of national minorities, on the Prevention of Terrorism, the Social Charter and the Charter of Local Self-Government.
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