{"id":375241,"date":"2025-08-26T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:16:10","slug":"russia-to-officially-quit-europes-anti-torture-treaty-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/375241\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to officially quit Europe\u2019s anti-torture treaty \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/portal\/-\/the-russian-federation-is-excluded-from-the-council-of-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia was expelled<\/a> from the Council of Europe, the continent\u2019s top human rights body, a month after its all-out aggression against Ukraine began over three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases the Kremlin has aimed torture at political prisoners, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/navalny-cause-of-death-irregular-heartbeat-putin-prison-disease\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/navalny-cause-of-death-irregular-heartbeat-putin-prison-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who died in 2024 in a penal colony<\/a> inside the Arctic Circle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-death-toll-russia-captive-kremlin-defense-ministry\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-death-toll-russia-captive-kremlin-defense-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian prisoners held in captivity<\/a> have also been victimized.<\/p>\n<p>The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted in 1987, is one of the Council of Europe\u2019s cornerstone treaties. It allows anti-torture committee members to inspect detention facilities in member countries, focusing on prison overcrowding and better conditions for inmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, the continent\u2019s top human rights body, a month after its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[4582,332,9322,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-375241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-human-rights","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-russian-politics","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115095731313320898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}