ARMENIA | Legal standards of Human Rights Defender as NPM published in English

Legal Standards of the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia as the National Preventive Mechanism were published in Armenian and English.

This document illustrates the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia in the field of torture prevention.

The legal standards are prepared by special principles, based on the standards of the European Court of Human Rights, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, other international organizations, as well as the results of the work of the Office of the Human Rights Defender. They specify the principles that the Human Rights Defender is guided by while recording human rights violations in places of deprivation of liberty.

The Human Rights Defender’s legal standards are planned to be an educational material in universities and during training courses on the protection of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty organized for law enforcement officers and civil servants.

Source: Office of the Human Rights Defender, Armenia