The offense of torture in terms of the standards and precedents of the ECHR

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Data: 2019

In the given article it is analyzed the offense of torture incriminated in the art. 1661 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova in terms of the normative standards established by the ECHR and the jurisprudence of the European Court. As a result, there were evaluated the essential features of the national normative framework of the incrimination of torture in relation to the existing European standards and practices in this domain. The pertinent conclusions made by the authors offer the possibility of the understanding of the premises of the definition and incrimination of the torture and inhuman or degrading treatment in the criminal legislation of the Republic of Moldova.