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:
Africa
Name | Countries assigned |
Abdallah Ounnir (Head) | South Africa, Tunisia, Gabon, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon |
Bhooshun Domah | Burkina Faso, RCA, Mozambique, Sierra Leone |
Daniel Fink | Burundi, Benin, Senegal, Cabo Verde, Zambia |
Hamet Diakhate | Mali, Niger, DRC, Madagascar, Guinee, Côte d'Ivoire |
Hamida Dridi | Morocco, Mauritania, Mauritius, Togo |
Julia Kozma | Rwanda, Ghana, Liberia, South Sudan, Angola |
Americas
Name | Countries assigned |
Juan Pablo Vegas | Brazil, Chile, Nicaragua |
Marie Brasholt | Bolivia, Costa Rica, Uruguay |
Andrea Casamento | Ecuador, Panamá, Paraguay |
Carmen Comas-Mata Mira | Argentina, Belize, Mexico, Venezuela |
Marco Feoli (Head) | Guatemala, Honduras, Peru |
Asia Pacific
Name | Countries assigned |
Victor Zaharia | Lebanon, Philippines, State of Palestine |
Shujune Muhammad | Afghanistan, Australia, New Zealand, Nauru |
Nika Kvaratskheklia (Head) | Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia |
Jakub Czepek | Cambodia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste |
Europe
Name | Countries assigned |
Uju Agomoh | Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Ireland |
Vasiliki Artinopoulou (Head) | Czechia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malta, Norway, Slovakia |
Massimiliano Bagaglini | Cyprus, Georgia, Lithuania, Serbia |
Suzanne Jabbour | France, Luxembourg, Turkey, Switzerland |
Andrew Christoffel Nissen | Moldova, United Kingdom, Poland |
Zdenka Perovic | Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia |
Maria Luisa Romero | Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Spain |
Elīna Šteinerte | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Iceland, Montenegro |
Anica Tomsic | Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, Belgium |
Martin Zinkler | Estonia, Portugal, Romania, Sweden |
Signatories are in italics
To contact the members of the SPT Regional Teams, please email [email protected]