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19.03.2008 - A delegation of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently carried out a three-day visit to Armenia.
The main purpose of the visit, which began on 15 March 2008, was to examine the treatment of persons detained in relation to events which followed the recent Presidential election in Armenia. The delegation interviewed some eighty persons held at Nubarashen, Vardashen and Yerevan-Kentron Prisons, the Temporary holding facility of the National Security Service and the Holding Centre of Yerevan City Police Department. In addition, the delegation visited the Main Department for Combating Organised Crime and Kentron District Police Division in Yerevan.
In the course of its visit, the CPT's delegation held discussions with Gevork DANIELYAN, Minister of Justice, Ararat MAHTESYAN, First Deputy Head of Police, Aram TAMAZYAN, Deputy Prosecutor General, Shota VARDANYAN, Director of the Republican Centre of Forensic Medicine, and Armen HARUTYUNYAN, Human Rights Defender. The delegation also met with representatives of non-governmental organisations and with defence lawyers.
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations to the Armenian authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
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Marc NÈVE
(Belgian), Head of delegation
- Ivan JANKOVIĆ (Serbian)
- George TUGUSHI (Georgian).
They were supported by Petya NESTOROVA (Head of Division) of the Committee's Secretariat, and assisted by Derrick POUNDER, Professor of forensic medicine, University of Dundee (United Kingdom).
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