2007 News
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Armenia
In the light of the information gathered during the visit, the CPT has maintained its assessment that persons deprived of their liberty by the police in Armenia run a significant risk of being ill-treated. The Committee has called upon the Armenian authorities to deliver to all police staff a...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Georgia
In the course of the visit, the CPT’s delegation gained the impression that the situation as regards the treatment of people detained by the police in Georgia had considerably improved. Only a few isolated allegations of physical ill-treatment were heard, all but one of which referred to the...
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Ireland
In the course of the visit, the CPT reviewed the treatment of people detained by the Irish police, the Garda Síochána. It also examined the treatment of inmates and conditions of detention in a number of prisons, as well as visiting the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum. The majority of people...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits the Russian Federation
The visit, which began on 3 September 2007, focused on the treatment of prisoners in the Chelyabinsk Region of the Russian Federation. The delegation visited two strict-regime penitentiary establishments, Colony No. 1 in Oktyabrskyi settlement and Colony No. 6 in Kopeysk. In addition, it paid a...
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Albania
The main objective of the visit was to examine the steps taken by the Albanian authorities to implement various recommendations made by the CPT after its previous visits to Albania. Particular attention was paid to the treatment of persons detained by the police and the conditions under which...
Preliminary observations by Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) after visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2007
The situation of forensic psychiatric patients was another focal point of the visit, the CPT’s delegation looking into the treatment of patients at Sokolac Psychiatric Hospital and Zenica Prison Forensic Psychiatric Annexe. The delegation encouraged the authorities to take a more...
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on the Czech Republic
The CPT received no allegations of recent physical ill-treatment of persons during their period of custody in police establishments. However, a number of allegations of excessive use of force by police officers at the time of apprehension were heard. The CPT continued to have serious concerns...
Council of Europe's Anti-Torture Committee publishes two reports on visits to Spain
Both reports highlight the Committee’s concerns about the practical safeguards in place to prevent ill-treatment by law enforcement officials. In the report on the 2005 visit, the CPT concluded, following a detailed analysis of a number of individual cases, that the safeguards in place for...
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Ukraine
The 2005 visit revealed a slight reduction as regards the scale of the phenomenon of ill-treatment. Nevertheless, the report concludes that persons detained by the police continue to run a significant risk of being subject to ill-treatment, in particular during the phase of initial questioning by...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Germany
The CPT received no allegations of recent physical ill-treatment of persons during their period of custody in police establishments. However, a number of allegations of excessive use of force by police officers at the time of apprehension were heard. Particular attention was once again paid to...
Chechnya: Council of Europe anti-torture Committee makes a public statement
The CPT's public statement is made under Article 10, paragraph 2, of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Article 10 (2) provides that if a Party to the Convention "fails to cooperate or refuses to improve the situation in the...
Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Croatia
In the course of the 2003 visit, the CPT found that, although the number of allegations of ill-treatment of persons in police custody was lower than during the first periodic visit in 1998, police ill-treatment continued to represent a problem. In its report, the Committee recommended that a high...