"I have the honor to present to your attention the next edition of the author's series of textbooks on human rights, dedicated to the practice of the ECtHR regarding the application of Article 3 of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights, as well as the standards and practices of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
I sincerely believe that this series, launched in 2009, has become a relevant and sought-after publication for lawyers, judges, investigators, prosecutors, corrections officers and all who defend human rights.
However - I emphasize this - I hope that this series will primarily continue to be useful for victims of crimes of torture and inhuman treatment, their relatives, and representatives who try to protect the rights of victims, despite the often high and strong wall of bureaucracy and abuses from the state and its agents.
In the domestic system of criminal justice, the victim has always been marginalized in terms of the protection of his rights, and this marginality objectively deepened even more with the beginning of another armed aggression against Ukraine.
Therefore, I have great hope that this new edition of practical orientation will serve the protection of the rights of all people who were arbitrarily deprived of what, in principle and under no circumstances, a person can be deprived of – the right to be free from torture or inhuman treatment."
Yagunov, Dmytro (2023) Prohibition of Torture: Practices of the European Court of Human Rights, Standards and Practice of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. With an introduction by Dr. Mykola Hnatovskyi (Judge of the European Court of Human Rights), Andriy Kostin (General Prosecutor, Ukraine), Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp, Dr. Dmytro Yagunov. Tübingen - Odessa. 604 p.
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