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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8011

21 July 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) council of europe
Walch expresses concern after public declaration by CPT on Chechnya

Strasbourg, 20/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - The president of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Ernst Walch, Foreign Minister for Liechtenstein, yesterday denounced the bad will on the part of Russia to shed light on the cases of torture of prisoners in Chechnya. His intervention comes after the public declaration by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on 10 July, which was highly critical of the attitude adopted by the Russian authorities (see EUROPE of 14 July,...

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