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The ACAT
was founded in 2002, and was officially
registered by the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan in 2005. Purpose
of the organization is to organize defence of human rights, to
discover victims of tortures, after discovering to organize
juridical aid to them, to expose the employees of force structures,
to monitor the conditions in detention institutions under
subordination of Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal Affairs,
Ministry of National Security and Ministry of Defence and prisoners
in those institutions. The organization cooperates with the state
bodies, especially with force structures. Organization has a special
right to held constant and sudden monitoring in institutions such as
Prison Imprisons Institutions subordinated to Ministry of Justice,
Temporary Holding Wards of Police Stations, Investigation Wards of
Ministry of National Security, temporary holding places of Ministry
of Defence, Close Obligatory Treatment Departments of Ministry of
Health. The organization is the member of World Organization against
Tortures. ACAT is in close cooperation relations with international
corps, US Embassy, Embassy of Great Britain, Norway Embassy, Baku
Office of OSCE and other organizations operating in Baku.
Committee possessed
opportunities to hold monitoring in Temporary Holding Wards of
police departments and stations in regions of the republic with
financial support of Baku Office of Organization of Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), US Embassy in Azerbaijan Republic, and
Great Britain Embassy in Azerbaijan Republic. Director of the
Committee Mr.Elchin Behbudov took part and spoke on theme “Human
rights and tortures” in international conferences held by
International Organization of Prison Reforms in Bakuriani city of
Georgia on February 14-17, 2005 and in Vienna, Austria on 14-17
July, 2005 by OCSE line. The world was informed about Azerbaijan
realities through those speeches once more. Organization published
four books about tortures in Azerbaijan.
Current projects of
organization:
1) Project of "Monitoring of detention centers at the
law-enforcement bodies" with the support of OSCE
Baku Office;
2) Human Rights Training for police officers with support of US
Embassy: Projects of Instructions, Laws and International
Conventions;
3)
Project of “Monitoring of torture facts during court
procedures” with Great Britain Embassy line;
4)
Coordinator of the project “Investigation of torture facts in
Azerbaijan and rendering juridical aid direct to victims of tortures
and their families”;
5)
Project of “Creating of Web-site of Azerbaijan Committee
Against Tortures” with support of Open Society Institute, 2008
Cooperation
relations of organization:
1)
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan Republic
2)
Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan Republic
3)
Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan Republic
4)
Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan Republic
5)
General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan Republic
International
organizations:
1)
UNO representation in Azerbaijan
2)
World Committee Against Tortures
3)
Baki Office of Europe Council
4)
Baku office of OSCE
5)
US Embassy in Azerbaijan
6)
Great Britain Embassy in Azerbaijan
7)
Norway Embassy in Azerbaijan
8)
International Human Rights Organization
Special Notes:
1) The ACAT has the
right to hold monitoring at prisons, preliminary imprisonment cells,
disciplinary cells and compulsory treatment institutions.
2) Head of the ACAT
actively cooperates with the OSCE representatives in Azerbaijan in
sphere of monitoring of places of detention.
Partnership:
-
UNO representative office in Azerbaijan
-
OSCE representative office in Azerbaijan
-
Chairman of the EU representative office in
Azerbaijan
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USA embassy
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Norwegian embassy
-
United Kingdom embassy
Projects started
in 2007:
-
Seminars dedicated to Human Rights for police
officers (With the support of USA
embassy)
- “Monitoring
of Torture Cases During the Trial” (With
the support of UK embassy)
Following books are published by ACAT:
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