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Strasbourg, 19.10.2007 A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently carried out a two-week visit to Switzerland. The visit, which began on 24 September 2007, was the CPT's fifth visit to this country.
During the visit, the delegation followed up a certain number of issues examined during previous visits, in particular, the fundamental safeguards against ill-treatment offered to persons in police custody and the situation of persons deprived of their liberty under aliens legislation. In the area of prisons, particular attention was paid to the conditions of detention of persons against whom a compulsory placement measure or institutional therapeutic measures had been ordered, as well as to conditions in the security units. The delegation also examined the situation of juveniles and young adults in education centres.
In the course of the visit, the delegation met Christoph BLOCHER, Federal Counsellor, Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police. It also held discussions with several senior officials from that Department and from the cantons it visited, as well as with representatives of the Conference of Directors of the Cantonal Justice and Police Departments.
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations to the Swiss authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Marc NEVE (Belgian), Head of the delegation
- Mario BENEDETTINI (San Marinese)
- Wolfgang HEINZ (German)
- Veronica PIMENOFF (Finnish)
- Florin STANESCU (Romanian).
They were supported by Fabrice KELLENS, Deputy Executive Secretary, and Muriel ISELI of the Secretariat of the CPT, and assisted by two experts: Daniel GLEZER, Psychiatrist, former Head of Prison Psychiatry at the Regional Medical Psychological Department at "Les Baumettes" Prison, Marseilles (France), and Philippe MARY, Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).
The delegation visited the following places:
Canton of Aargau
- Cantonal Police Headquarters, Tellistrasse 85,
Aarau
- Police Station, Laurenzenvorstadt 12, Aarau
- Aarau-Telli District Prison, Aarau
- Aarau-Amtshaus District Prison, Aarau
Canton of Berne
- Cantonal Police Headquarters, Nordring 30, Berne
- Police Station, Berne central railway station
- Wabern Police Station, Seftigenstrasse 208,
Ostermundingen
- Lory Home for young persons, Münsingen
- Thorberg Prisons
Canton of Geneva
- Pâquis Police Station, rue de Berne 6
- International Security Police, Geneva
Airport
- Geneva Police Drugs Task Force, rue Eugène Marziano 19
- Holding cells of the Section of Investigating Judges,
Palais de Justice
- Frambois Detention Centre for Foreigners, Vernier
- Facilities for asylum seekers, transit zone at Geneva
Airport
- Champ-Dollon Prison, including the cellular unit of the cantonal hospital, the cellular unit of the Belle-Idée psychiatric hospital and the holding cells of the Palais de Justice
Canton of Valais
- Detention Centre for Foreigners, Granges
- Pramont Education Centre, Granges
Canton of Zürich
- Cantonal Police Station, Zürich central railway
station
- Cantonal Police Station, Kasernenstrasse, 29, Zürich
- Municipal Police Station, Bahnhofquai 3, Zürich
- Pöschwies Prison
- Cantonal Police Prison, Section for women and
juveniles, Kasernenstrasse 49, Zürich
In addition, the delegation went to the remand prison, Wassergasse 23, in Solothurn, to interview certain detained persons.
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