10 Convention against Torture, Article 14 Paragraph 1 Each State Party shall ensure in its legal system that the victim of an act of torture obtains redress and has an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible16. Each State Party shall ensure that any statement which is established to have been made as a result of torture shall not be invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made17. The Convention against Torture establishes a Committee against Torture18. The States Parties shall submit to the Committee reports on the measures they have taken to give effect to their undertakings under this Convention. Each report shall be reviewed by the Committee which may make such comments or suggestions on the report as it considers appropriate, and shall forward these to the State Party concerned. That State Party may respond with any observations it chooses to the Committee19. The Republic of Serbia had submitted reports to the Committee, who made comments on them20. Serbia is Member State of the Council of Europe. European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms21 and European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment22 (European Convention for the Prevention of Torture) were ratified in 200323. European Convention for the Prevention of Torture establishes a European Committee for the Prevention of Torture24. Each State Party is obliged to permit visits to the Committee, to any place within its jurisdiction where persons are deprived of their liberty25. Each State Party is obliged to permit to the Committee, access to its territory and the right to travel without restriction, full information on the places where persons deprived of their liberty are being placed, unlimited access to any place where persons are deprived of their liberty, including the right to move inside such places without restriction, and the right to interview in private persons deprived of their liberty, or any person whom it believes can supply relevant information26. After each vi- 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Convention against Torture, Article 14 Convention against Torture, Article 15 Convention against Torture, Article 17 Convention against Torture, Article 19 Paragraph 1 Comment made by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture at its 41st session, from 3 November to 21 November 2008 on Report of the Republic of Serbia Opened for signature on 4 November 1950 in Rome Signed on 26 November 1987 in Strasbourg „Official Gazette of Serbia and Montenegro – International treaties“, No. 9/2003, 5/2005 and 7/2005 – modified and Official Gazette of Serbia and Montenegro – International treaties , No. 9/2003) European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, Article 1 European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, Article 2 and Article 7 Paragraph 1 European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, Article 8