RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERAL LAW On ratification of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and Protocols by the State Duma on 20 February 1998 approved by the Federation Council on 13 March 1998 Ratification of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment or Punishment of 26 November 1987 and Protocols thereto N 1 and N 2 of 4 November 1993, signed on behalf of the Russian Federation in the city of Strasbourg on 28 February 1996. President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 28 March 1998 N 44-FZ
