Dmytro Yagunov. Deviant State in the Context of the Anti-Torture Policy

Coming back to the issue of the “anti-torture criminal code”, we must point out the problem which is a blurring of borders between “torture” and “other forms of ill-treatment”. Also, it is a process of a permanent increase in actions that are considered as “ill-treatment”. Consequently, the process of increasing of an flexible list of “the State’s torture crimes” shapes a structural problem in the following system of coordinates: 1) the obligations according to the ECHR and the ECtHR case law; 2) increasing scope of the CPT standards; 3) limited resources of States for the places of detention.

Considering the social consequences caused by imprisonment, prisons and other total institutions cannot be considered only as formal institutions and analyzed only within a formal approach.

Заборона катувань: практика Європейського суду з прав людини, стандарти та практика Європейського комітету з питань запобігання катуванням