United Nations
Optional Protocol to the
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
CAT/OP/ARM/2/Add.1
Distr.: General
22 February 2017
Original: English
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Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Visit to Armenia undertaken from 3 to 6
September 2013: observations and
recommendations addressed to the national
preventive mechanism
Report of the Subcommittee*, **
Addendum
Replies of the national preventive mechanism
* In accordance with article 16 (1) of the Optional Protocol, the report of the Subcommittee was
transmitted confidentially to the national preventive mechanism on 10 May 2014. On 8 January 2017,
the national preventive mechanism requested the Subcommittee to publish the report, in accordance
with article 16 (2) of the Optional Protocol.
** The present document is being issued without formal editing.
GE.17-02868(E)