United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
CAT/C/KAZ/CO/3
Distr.: General
12 December 2014
Original: English
Committee against Torture
Concluding observations on the third periodic report of
Kazakhstan*
1.
The Committee against Torture considered the third periodic report of Kazakhstan
(CAT/C/KAZ/3) at its 1270th and 1273rd meetings, held on 17 and 18 November 2014
(CAT/C/SR.1270 and CAT/C/SR.1273), and adopted the following concluding
observations at its 1286th and 1287th meetings (CAT/C/SR.1286 and CAT/C/SR.1287)
held on 27 November 2014.
A.
Introduction
2.
The Committee thanks the State party for submitting its third periodic report. The
Committee appreciates the quality of its dialogue with the State party’s large high-level
multisectoral delegation and the responses provided orally and in writing to the questions
and concerns raised during the consideration of the report.
B.
Positive aspects
3.
The Committee welcomes the State party’s accession to and ratification of the
following international and regional instruments:
(a)
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, on 27 February 2009;
(b)
First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, on 30 June 2009.
4.
The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to revise its legislation in areas of
relevance to the Convention, including the adoption of:
(a)
Supreme Court Regulatory Decision No. 7 on the application of the norms of
criminal law and criminal procedural law concerning respect for individual liberty and the
inviolability of human dignity and prevention of torture, violence and other cruel or
degrading treatment or punishment, on 28 December 2009;
* Adopted by the Committee at its fifty-third session (3–28 November 2014).
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