On May 23, trainers-experts of the Institute conducted trainings for investigators and interrogators of Shirvan city Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 

 Training covered the application of the provisions on the “Right to liberty and security” established in Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

 By opening the training with an introductory speech, investigator of the Chief Investigation and Inspection Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Captain, Vugar Amirov welcomed the guests and said that he was pleased to see the regular visits of the trainers of the Institute to the regions of Azerbaijan.He highly appreciated the initiatives of the Institut related with these trainings and stressed that the governmental entity represented by him would be always open to cooperation.

At the opening of the training, the Chairman of the Board of the Institute, Mahammad Guluzade, gave an extensive information about the directions of the Institute's activities, future perspectives of cooperation with governmental institutions, as well as about the structure of the training. M.Guluzade also expressed his gratitude to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the conditions created for the training. The Chairman stated that he believed that such trainings would facilitate cooperation between the two institutions.

Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Institute, Natavan Rustamova made a presentation on such topics as: “Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Duties of the State”, “Restriction of the right to liberty and security and the most recognized violations in the resolutions made against Azerbaijan under Article 5”. The presentation reflected the basic principles of Article 5 and the main criteria applied, the essential features of positive and negative obligations as well as statistics on the recognition of violations of Article 5 in the resolutions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding Azerbaijan.

Legal expert Vafaddin Ibayev spoke about the importance of changes in legislation and judicial practice in ensuring the right to liberty, made recommendations related to existing problems in legal practice and their solutions. The expert made a number of suggestions for changing the legislation, and also commented on the identified violations in the area of the right to liberty and security.

At the end, the participants were divided into case-solving groups and made an extensive exchange of ideas on the topics related with Article 5. The participants were given an opportunity of evaluating the training.  14 police officers were presented  certificates.

 

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Published : 2023-05-23 17:06:00
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