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Turkey should protect human rights defenders and end judicial arbitrariness
Commissioner for Human Rights
8 July 2019
Strasbourg
“Turkey must take urgent and necessary measures to re-establish trust in its judiciary and repair the damage inflicted on the rule of law during the state of emergency and its aftermath”, said Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, at the end of a five-day visit to...
Anti-torture committee report on Czechia
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
4 July 2019
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) today published the report on its October 2018 visit to Czechia. The report assesses the treatment and safeguards afforded to persons deprived of their liberty by the police, the...