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Back The CPT visits Lithuania

A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a periodic visit to Lithuania from 5 to 15 September 2016. It was the Committee's fifth periodic visit to this country.

In the course of the visit, the delegation had consultations with Paulius GRICIŪNAS, Deputy Minister of Justice, Artūras NORKEVIČIUS, Deputy Minister of the Interior, Algirdas ŠEŠELGIS, Deputy Minister of Social Security and Labour, Jūratė SABALIENĖ, Deputy Minister of Health, Evaldas PAŠILIS, Prosecutor General, as well as with senior officials from the Ministries of Justice, the Interior, Health, and Social Security and Labour. In addition, talks were held with the Seimas Ombudsmen Augustinas NORMANTAS and Raimondas ŠUKYS. The delegation also met representatives of non-governmental organisations active in areas of concern to the CPT.

At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations to the Lithuanian authorities.

The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:

Marzena KSEL, Head of delegation
Inga HARUTYUNYAN
Anna MOLNAR
Costakis PARASKEVA
George TUGUSHI
Marika VÄLI.

They were supported by Borys WÓDZ (Head of Division) and Dalia ŽUKAUSKIENĖ of the CPT’s Secretariat, and assisted by an expert Andres LEHTMETS, Head of the Centre of Psychiatry, West Tallinn Central Hospital, Estonia.

The delegation visited the following places of deprivation of liberty:

Police establishments