2011 News
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits Azerbaijan
The CPT’s delegation assessed progress made since previous visits and the extent to which the Committee’s recommendations have been implemented, in particular as regards police custody, imprisonment – including inmates sentenced to life imprisonment – and legal safeguards for patients in...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Ukraine
In its report, the CPT notes an improvement of material conditions of detention in law enforcement establishments and of the conditions in which immigration detainees are held, as well as the stepping up of efforts aimed at the social rehabilitation of prisoners and their preparation for release....
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee: solitary confinement in prisons should be minimised
“Solitary confinement can have an extremely damaging effect on the physical, mental and social health of prisoners, and that damage is likely to increase the longer the measure lasts and the more indeterminate it is. An indicator is that the suicide rate of prisoners under this regime is higher...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee holds talks in Russia
On 30 August 2011, the CPT's representatives met, in Moscow, the Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliyev, and senior federal officials of the Interior Ministry. The Ministers of the Interior for the Chechen Republic and the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Armenia
During the visit, the CPT's delegation heard a significant number of allegations of police ill-treatment. In its report, the Committee recommends that a firm message of “zero tolerance” of ill-treatment be delivered to all police officers. Further, training on advanced crime investigation methods...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Latvia
The main objective of the visit was to review progress made as regards the treatment and conditions of detention of prisoners, in the light of the recommendations made by the Committee after the 2007 visit to Latvia. To that end, the CPT’s delegation re-visited Jēkabpils Prison and the units for...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Poland
During the visit, the CPT's delegation received a number of allegations of excessive use of force by the police at the time of apprehension, as well as of physical ill-treatment and verbal abuse, including of juveniles, during questioning. The CPT has recommended that police officers be reminded...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes the Georgian Government's response to the report on the February 2010 visit
In its response, the Georgian Government describes the measures being taken to improve the situation in the light of the recommendations made by the CPT. For example, the Georgian authorities state that a Medical Department has been set up at the Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance with...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Lithuania
One of the main objectives of the visit was to examine the measures taken by the Lithuanian authorities to implement the recommendations made by the CPT after its 2008 visit to Kaunas Juvenile Remand Prison. The Committee’s delegation observed that the material conditions of detention in the...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Turkey
In the course of the visit, the CPT’s delegation interviewed a large number of persons detained in various police or gendarmerie establishments and remand prisons throughout Turkey and gained the distinct impression that the downward trend seen in recent years in both the incidence and the...
Council of Europe's anti-torture Committee publishes report on its 2007 periodic visit to Spain
In the course of the visit, the CPT’s delegation examined the treatment of persons detained by various national and (autonomous) regional law enforcement agencies. The Committee’s report refers to several allegations received of ill-treatment during the incommunicado detention of persons...
Greece: 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. This is the sixth time the CPT has made a public statement since it was set up in 1989.
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Moldova
The initial objective of the visit was to re-examine the situation in prison and police establishments in the Transnistrian region (*) of the Republic of Moldova. However, on the spot, the delegation was not allowed to speak to remand prisoners in private. Such a restriction contradicts one of...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Malta
In the course of the visit, the CPT examined the treatment of persons detained by the police, irregular immigrants detained under the Immigration Act and prisoners in the Corradino Correctional Facility. It also visited several wards at the Mount Carmel Hospital as well as the Fejda Programme and...
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 three psychiatric hospitals, and an institution for persons with...
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