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Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

last updated June 5, 2006

First Periodic Report (French) (Spanish)

  • Due: 14 September 1997
  • Submitted: 18 December 1998
  • Summary record of the 401st meeting
  • Summary record of the 404th meeting (French)
  • Summary record of the 406th meeting (French)
  • Concluding observations of the Committee (French) (Spanish)
  • The Committee welcomed efforts to train and educate law enforcement and medical personnel on the prohibition of torture. The Committee expressed concerns, however, over the absence of a definition of torture in the criminal laws and recommended that laws be adopted making torture a punishable offence. 

Second Periodic Report (French) (Spanish)

Third Periodic Report

  • Due: 14 September 2005

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Upcoming Reports

Azerbaijan's Third Periodic Report under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is due on 4 September 2005