Regional Teams

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture

The SPT Regional Teams are made up of SPT members; each team has a Head who co-ordinates the activities in the region.

Country responsibilities are distributed as follows:

Members (6)	Countries (25)
Barbara Bernath	Benin, Morocco, South Africa, Togo, Sierra Leone, Chad
Luciano Maia	Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Mozambique, South Sudan, Angola, Guinee-Bissau
Paul Lam Shang Leen (Head)	Burkina, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Zambia
Omar Battas	Burundi, Mauritania, Senegal, Tunisia, Cameroon
Hamet Diakhate	Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Madagascar, Guinee
Julia Kozma	Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritius, Rwanda

Members (4)	Countries (15)
Juan Pablo Vegas	Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua
Marie Brasholt	Belize, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Uruguay
Carmen Comas-Mata Mira	Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela
Marco Feoli (Head)	Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru

Members (4)	Countries (13)
Victor Zaharia (Head)	State of Palestine, Lebanon, Philippines
Shujune Muhammad	Australia, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Nauru
Nika Kvaratskheklia	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia
Jakub Czepek	Maldives, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Timor-Leste

Members (11)	Countries (41)
Uju Agomoh	Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Vasiliki Artinopoulou (Head)	Czechia, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia
Massimiliano Bagaglini	Cyprus, Georgia, Lithuania, Serbia
Suzanne Jabbour	France, Türkiye, Switzerland, Belgium
Andrew Christoffel Nissen	Moldova, United Kingdom, Poland
Kalliopi Kambanella	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Montenegro, North Macedonia
Djordje Alempijevic	Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Malta
Maria Luisa Romero	Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Spain
Elīna Šteinerte	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Iceland
Anica Tomsic	Greece, Hungary, Ukraine, Ireland
Martin Zinkler	Estonia, Portugal, Romania, Sweden

Signatories are in italics

To contact the members of the SPT Regional Teams, please email [email protected]