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Anti-torture Committee publishes two reports on Turkey
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
5 August 2020
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published reports on its 2017 periodic visit and 2019 ad hoc visit to Turkey. The main objective of the 2017 and 2019 visits was to examine the treatment and conditions of...
Secretary General honours Roma Holocaust victims
Secretary General
31 july 2020
Strasbourg
On 2 August 1944, the remaining Roma of the so-called “Zigeunerlager” (Gypsy camp) – some 3,000 men, women and children – were exterminated in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Roma Holocaust was an attempt by the Nazi regime and its supporters to exterminate the Romani people of...
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