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    POLICEMAN AND TORTURES ARE STILL COMMON PHENOMENA

    A1plus

    | 13:45:49 | 16-05-2005 | Social |

    On November 26, 1987 in Strasbourg Armenia signed the European
    Convention about "Preventing Tortures and Punishments Humiliating
    People's Dignity". In spite of this fact, today the combat against
    tortures in the Armenian prisons is great problem.

    Today in the American University Center a round table was organized
    devoted to the signing and ratification of the UN Convention against
    tortures. The discussion was organized by the non-governmental
    organization "Civic Society Institute" and the international
    organization "Improvements in International Prisons".

    According to Mathew Pring, expert of the Tortures Prevention
    association, the UN Convention non-obligatory Protocol regulates the
    system of regular visits of national and international experts to the
    prisons. According to him, suchlike visits not only prevent tortures,
    but also give the experts the possibility to investigate the attitude
    towards the prisoners themselves.

    According to Temik Khalapyan, head of the Social investigations and
    observations group, for the last year no cases of torture have been
    recorded, but the general state of the prisons is very bad. As he
    says, the Vanadzor isolator is in a terrible state and the building
    needs urgent reconstruction. As for tortures, there are many cases in
    temporary isolators. According to him, "The combat against tortures
    must first of all be regulated in the police and the policemen must
    not be allowed to abuse their rights".
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