{"id":171052,"date":"2015-11-11T20:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/rights-groups-urge-un-anti-torture-body-to-hold-azerbaijan-to-account\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:43:24","slug":"rights-groups-urge-un-anti-torture-body-to-hold-azerbaijan-to-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/rights-groups-urge-un-anti-torture-body-to-hold-azerbaijan-to-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups urge UN anti-torture body to hold Azerbaijan to account"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/37955\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37955\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Source: IPHR<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/37958\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37958\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  The UN Committee against Torture (UNCAT) is in the midst of discussing Azerbaijan\u2019s compliance with the Convention against Torture. The UN anti-torture body gathered today to review Azerbaijan\u2019s fourth periodic report about its implementation of CAT. The deliberations will continue on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ahead of today\u2019s discussions, the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) submitted a joint report to the UNCAT calling for holding the Azerbaijani authorities to account for the arbitrary detention of leading anti-torture activists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe are concerned over the safety of our colleagues and members. We fear the return of patterns suggesting a clear intention not only to arbitrarily detain but to break human rights defenders in prison,\u201d<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    <b><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/iphronline.org\/azerbaijan-un-cat-urged-to-intervene-to-stop-torture-20151111.html\"><br \/>\n        said<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/b><br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  OMCT Secretary General Gerald Staberock. \u201cThe attempted logic of \u2018no defender\u2019 \u2013 \u2018no torture\u2019 is a greatly alarming defying truth and justice. The \u2018no defender\u2019 \u2013 no torture\u2019 approach also questions the very integrity of the reporting process under the UN Convention Against Torture.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the press release published on the IPHR website today, both organizations informed the UNCAT about the conditions, including in the detention facilities under the Ministry of National Security where prisoners are held in almost complete isolation. The continuous existence of such detention, almost two decades after the start of prison reforms in Azerbaijan, is unacceptable and in violation of international human rights standards, according to the OMCT and IPHR.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Human rights defenders incarcerated in Azerbaijan suffer from serious health conditions. Meanwhile, the Ombudsman Office and its National Preventive Mechanism, whose establishment the international community had supported over the last decade have largely justified government policies against human rights defenders, according to the IPHR press release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe international community has invested a great deal into the setting up of National Preventive Mechanisms and Ombudsman Institutions, mandated to monitor places of detention and to prevent torture. In Azerbaijan, these mechanisms are completely failing. It is time that these institutions live up to their expectation and assume their responsibility. Ultimately, without any credible civil society voice left we have to assume that whatever is known today about custody, detention and ill-treatment is only a glimpse of a tip of the iceberg,\u201d said IPHR Director Brigitte Dufour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Yesterday, the two NGOs released an alternative<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    <b><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/iphronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/OMCT-IPHR-report-to-CAT-on-Azerbaijan.pdf\"><br \/>\n        report<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/b><br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  to the UNCAT, which was \u201cintended to provide information and analysis of the [Azerbaijani] government\u2019s abuse of its criminal legal system as well as its use of torture and other ill-treatment to break and destroy human rights defenders for their human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Committee against Torture (UNCAT) is reviewing Azerbaijan&#8217;s report on compliance with anti-torture standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":37955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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