Human rights activists assigned Kyrgyzstan 9.45 points in the Torture Prohibition Index. The human rights movement “Ediniy Mir (Bir Duino)” informs about this.
The Civil Solidarity Platform Working Team to Combat Torture has developed a Torture Prohibition Index. It is calculated across the country. The composite indicator contains assessments of the state mechanism for responding to torture, judicial control, the presence of norms in national legislation prohibiting torture, the level of ensuring procedural guarantees working for the prevention of torture, the mechanisms and means of preventing torture working in the country, and to what extent the state accepts international obligations in the field of the prohibition of torture.
In total, the index was assigned to eight countries of the OSCE region in 2019: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.
“The main problem that human rights defenders have encountered is the fuzzy, irregular, and lacking presentation of data in the public domain of some countries. For this reason, the individual parameters of the Index for four countries were not included in the composite indicator. In particular, problems with data collection have arisen in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Moldova, and Ukraine, ”said the developers of the Index.
Human rights activists note that if these data were public, the Index for these countries could become higher.
“At the end of 2019, Kyrgyzstan was assigned 9.45 points in the Torture Prohibition Index. The higher the score, the higher the index. Thus, Kyrgyzstan overtook Belarus (-94.2 points), Tajikistan (-10.79), Kazakhstan (-3.04), and Russia (0.81). At the same time, Moldova has the best marks, which received 121.26 points, Ukraine (107.83 points), and Armenia (93.77 points), ”commented human rights activists.
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