Civil Society Institute in cooperation with Penal Reform International and by financial support of British Government has started a program “Campaign on signing and ratification of the Optional Protocol to UN Convention against Torture”.

On December 22, 2005 within the frames of the program, in Gyumri, at the Shirak Regional Branch of the A.D.Sakharov Human Rights Protection Center was held a seminar-discussion.
Representatives of local NGOs, lawyers, prosecutor of Shirak marz, representatives of the “Gyumri” criminal-executive institution.