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[02.05.02] – A delegation of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a periodic visit to Bulgaria from 17 to 26 April 2002. It was the Committee’s third visit to Bulgaria.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Silvia CASALE, President of the CPT
(Head of delegation)
- Mario FELICE (Maltese)
- Yuri KUDRYAVTSEV (Russian)
- Ingrid LYCKE ELLINGSEN (Norvegian)
- Veronica PIMENOFF (Finnish)
- Eric SVANIDZE (Georgian).
They were assisted by Enda DOOLEY, Director of Prison Health Care, Ireland, Clive MEUX, Consultant forensic psychiatrist, Oxford, United Kingdom, as well as by Wolfgang RAU and Petya NESTOROVA of the CPT’s Secretariat.
During this visit, the CPT’s delegation met Mr Anton STANKOV, Minister of Justice, and Mr Julian NAKOV, Deputy Minister of Education. It also held talks with the General Prosecutor's Office and with senior officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and the Ministry of Defence.
The CPT’s delegation reviewed measures taken by the Bulgarian authorities in response to the Committee’s recommendations made after its 1999 visit, in particular as regards the safeguards offered to persons detained by the police, the conditions in the country's investigation detention facilities and the treatment of prisoners at Burgas Prison. Issues tackled for the first time in Bulgaria included the situation of persons placed in a correctional boarding school and the treatment of servicemen held in military detention facilities.
The delegation visited the following places:
Police establishments
- District Police Directorate,
Botevgrad
- 1st District Police Directorate, Burgas
- 3rd District Police Directorate, Burgas
- District Police Directorate, Byala Slatina
- District Police Directorate, Kazanluk
- Police Station at Sofia Railway Station
- District Police Directorate, Vratsa
- Petrich National Border Police Station
Prisons
- Burgas Prison
- Pleven Prison
- Reception/transit cells at Sofia Prison
Investigation detention facilities at
- Botevgrad, Burgas, Byala Slatina,
Gabrovo, Kazanluk, Petrich, Plovdiv, Vratsa
- "Major Vekilski" 2, Sofia
- "Maria Louisa" 110 A, Sofia
Psychiatric establishments
- Karlukovo State Psychiatric
Hospital
- Home for adults with mental disorders in the village
of Razdol, Strumyani municipality
Military detention facilities
- Temporary detention facility of the
Regional Army Security Service, Sofia
- Detention facility of the 9th Armoured Tank Brigade,
Gorna Banya
- Detention Facility of the Training Centre for junior
officers and new recruits, Unit No.14 460, Pleven
Other establishments
- Correctional boarding school in the village of Jagoda, Muglizh municipality.
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