On 29 September 2025, Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing Russia from the European Convention for the Prevention of ...

Russia has begun the process of withdrawing from the European Convention on the Prevention of Torture. Source: Radio Liberty, cited by European Pravda Details: Russian ruler Vladimir Putin submitted a ...

On Sept. 29, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, symbolically making Russia the first country in history to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law the withdrawal of Russia from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The move effectively eliminates oversight of the country ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that the Russian “undesirable organization” law was incompatible with the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), ...

A group which is involved in investigating Moscow's war crimes in Ukraine has told Newsweek a plan by Russia to withdraw from a European treaty on torture was "profoundly disturbing." Vladimir Putin ...

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As State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin noted earlier, Russia's work in the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment "is being blocked by the ...

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from using anti-personnel mines. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was cited as a ...