The Russian Government has proposed denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a resolution on the submission of the relevant proposal to the Russian President for submission to the State Duma.
The document states that Russia will withdraw from the convention and its protocols.
In the text of the document, the government refers to its right to propose the termination of an international treaty to which Russia has acceded. According to the law, the submission must include a justification for the expediency of the termination of the treaty and an assessment of its consequences, there is no such information in the published document.
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 Rada announced its exclusion due to the large-scale war against Ukraine. After that, Moscow began withdrawing from international treaties related to the organisation. Among other things, Russia stopped being a party to the European Convention on Human Rights and refused to implement the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, denounced the Conventions on the Protection of National Minorities, on the Prevention of Terrorism, the Social Charter and the Charter of Local Self-Government.