This report documents in detail Amnesty International’s concerns regarding allegations of the widespread and systematic use of torture and ill-treatment in the Russian Federation. It examines current legislation facilitating torture and ill-treatment, and cases of torture and ill-treatment by police, particularly the targeting of ethnic minorities. It reports on examples of torture and ill-treatment in pre-trial detention and conditions of detention amounting to torture, and the use of confessions extracted under torture in judicial proceedings. It also reports on torture and ill-treatment, including rape, during the armed conflict in the Chechen Republic, and examples of torture and ill-treatment in the army and of conscientious objectors. It further condemns the deportation of asylum-seekers to countries where they may face torture and ill-treatment, and the continued use of the death penalty. The report concludes with a series of proposals and recommendations aimed at the prevention of torture, including urging the authorities to implement the recommendations of the UN Committee against Torture.
Torture in Russia: “This man-made hell” (includes correction)
Tema
- Armed Conflict
- Armed Groups
- Arms Trade
- Censorship and Freedom of Expression
- Children
- Corporal Punishment
- Death Penalty
- Detention
- Disappearances
- Discrimination
- Europe and Central Asia
- Human Rights Defenders and Activists
- Impunity
- Internally Displaced People
- International Organizations
- Justice Systems
- Killings and Disappearances
- Penal Institutions
- Poverty
- Press Freedom
- Prisoners of Conscience
- Racial Discrimination
- Refugees
- Religious Groups
- Report
- Research
- Russia
- Sexual Violence
- Slums and the Right to Housing
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- UN
- UN Convention Against Torture
- Unfair Trials
- Unlawful Detention
- Unlawful Killings
- Women and Girls
- Women's Rights
- Youth and Human Rights