General Documents Not Relating To Specific States - Meetings of State Parties or of the UN Economic and Social Council - CAT - CAT - 1993 - Election of the Members of the Committee

Election of Five members of the Committee Against Torture : . 22/10/93.

ELECTION OF FIVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AGAINST
TORTURE TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS ARE DUE TO
EXPIRE ON 31 DECEMBER 1993, IN ACCORDANCE WITH
ARTICLE 17 OF THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT
OR PUNISHMENT

1. Since the preparation of document CAT/SP/15/Add.1, the Secretary-General has received the nomination of Mr. Dimitar N. MIKHAILOV (Bulgaria) for election to the Committee against Torture.

2. Biographical data on Mr. Mikhailov as furnished by the State party concerned are reproduced in the annex below.

A graduate of the Faculty of Law at Kliment of Ohrid University, Sofia. Has worked as an examining magistrate in the Ruse Regional Procurator's Office, as Procurator of the city of Radomir and as Regional Procurator in the city of Pernik. A former mayor of the city of Zemen and a departmental adviser to the local government of Pernik.

In 1969 he became a lecturer and a Doctor of Law. In 1983 he became Professor of Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law at Kliment of Ohrid University, Sofia. He has been Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University and Head of the Legal Department under the Council of Ministers.

In 1962-1963 he attended an eight-month course at the European University Centre at Nancy, France; he attended a course of further training in the Soviet Union; and in 1976 he was a United Nations Fellow in France and Belgium.

He has attended many international congresses, conferences and seminars held by the International Association of Penal Law (IAPL), the Kliment of Ohrid University, Sofia, and other important organizations, at which he has delivered learned reports on criminal law. He is the author of 100 learned publications including 8 monographs, 20 studies and other learned articles; a list of these publications is available for consultation in the Secretariat. He was elected to membership in the Committee against Torture in 1987 and 1989; he was its Rapporteur for two years and its Vice-Chairman for four years.

He was also a founder of the Committee on Human Rights in Bulgaria and has been a member of its Executive Board since 1988; he has been President of the Bulgarian Criminal Law Association since 1989 and since 1991 a Deputy in the Bulgarian Parliament, where he is a member of the Legislative Commission.