CAT Praises Romania s Human Rights Efforts, Probes Prison Issues miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits prisons and police arrest detention centres in Romania
News 2021 English 25/05/2021 Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF
The purpose of the ad hoc visit was to examine the treatment of persons held in prison and police establishments, and to evaluate the measures taken by the Romanian authorities to improve the situation since the Committee’s February 2018 visit. To this end, the CPT’s delegation visited four prisons, with a particular focus on persons held in the maximum security, closed and pre-trial regimes as well as prisoners with mental health disorders. It also visited seven police arrest detention centres and looked into the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty by the police. Further, the delegation had an opportunity to look into the effectiveness of investigations into allegations of ill-treatment by law enforcement off