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CPT annual report 2019: 30 years preventing torture and ill-treatment
Anti-torture committee (CPT)
28 May 2020
Strasbourg
“Despite the progress achieved in the last three decades in the prevention of torture and ill-treatment in Europe, significant and complex challenges remain to ensure the protection of persons deprived of liberty in places of detention”, said Mykola Gnatovskyy, President of the Council of...
Continued suspensions of mayors in south-east Turkey: statement by Congress President Knape
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
19 May 2020
Strasbourg
In reaction to reports about further suspensions of mayors in the southeast of Turkey, the President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Anders Knape, expressed his concern regarding the ongoing undermining of local self-government in the country. “Even...