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20.04.2006 - A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a visit to Armenia from 2 to 12 April 2006. It was the Committee's second periodic visit to Armenia.
The visit provided an opportunity to assess progress made since the previous periodic visit in October 2002. The delegation examined the treatment of persons detained by the police and the situation in penitentiary establishments. Particular attention was paid to the treatment and regime of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and the situation of female and juvenile prisoners. A further area of interest was the treatment of persons subjected to involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation.
In the course of the visit, the CPT's delegation met with Gevorg MALKHASYAN, First Deputy Minister of Justice, Alexandr GHUKASYAN and Tatul HAKOBYAN, Deputy Ministers of Health, Ararat MAHTESYAN, First Deputy Head of the Police, Aratsahan SARGSYAN and Aram TAMAZYAN, Deputy Prosecutors General, as well as other senior officials from relevant Ministries and Services. The delegation also met with Armen HARUTYUNYAN, the Human Rights Defender.
At the end of the visit the delegation presented its preliminary conclusions to the Armenian authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Andres LEHTMETS, 2nd
Vice-President of the CPT, Head of delegation (Estonian)
- Marija DEFINIS GOJANOVIĆ (Croatian)
- Zdenĕk HÁJEK (Czech)
- Zbigniew HOŁDA (Polish)
- Veronica PIMENOFF (Finnish).
They were supported by Johan FRIESTEDT and Borys WÓDZ from the CPT's
Secretariat, and assisted by two experts: Enda DOOLEY, Director of Prison Health
Care, Irish Prison Service, Dublin (Ireland) and Andrew RUTHERFORD, Professor,
Dean of Faculty of Law, Southampton University (United Kingdom).
The delegation visited the following places:
Police establishments
- Holding Centre for Detainees of
Yerevan City Police Department
- Erebuni District Police Division,
Yerevan
- Kentron and Nork-Marash District
Police Division, Yerevan
- Shengavit District Police Division,
Yerevan
- Main Department for Combating Organised Crime, Yerevan
- Charentsavan Police Department
- Gavar Police Department
- Goris Police Department
- Hrazdan Police Department
- Sevan Police Department
- Sisian Police Department
- Vanadzor Police Department
- Bazum District Police Division,
Vanadzor
- Yeghegnadzor Police Department
Prisons
- Abovyan Prison
- Goris Prison
- Nubarashen Prison (unit for
life-sentenced prisoners)
- Vanadzor Prison
Psychiatric establishments
- Sevan Psychiatric Hospital.
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