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22.12.2004 - 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 Cyprus from 8 to 17 December 2004. It was the Committee's fourth periodic visit to Cyprus.
The CPT's delegation examined the treatment of persons detained by the police (including immigration detainees) and the effectiveness of the formal safeguards against ill-treatment which are available to such persons. It also reviewed developments at the Central Prisons and Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital and, for the first time in Cyprus, examined the situation in places accommodating children in the care of the authorities. The delegation will return early in 2005 in order to visit places in the northern part of Cyprus where persons are deprived of their liberty.
In the course of the visit, the delegation held consultations with Doros THEODOROU, Minister for Justice and Public Order, as well as Sotos ZACKHEOS, Lazaros SAVVIDES, Andis TRYPHONIDES and Petros KAREKLAS, Permanent Secretaries respectively of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Justice and Public Order, and Defence. It also met Solon NIKITAS, Attorney General, and Eliana NICOLAOU, Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsperson).
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Mario FELICE, Head of delegation
(Maltese)
- Isolde KIEBER (Liechtensteiner)
- Mauro PALMA (Italian)
- Ole Vedel RASMUSSEN (Danish).
They were supported by Jan MALINOWSKI, Head of Unit, Caterina BOLOGNESE and Muriel ISELI of the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by two experts, Timothy HARDING, Director of the University Institute of Forensic Medicine, Geneva (Switzerland), and James McMANUS, Professor of Criminal Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University (United Kingdom).
The delegation visited the following places:
Police establishments
- Police Prison (Block 10 of
Nicosia Central Prisons)
- Central Police Stations of Larnaca,
Limassol and Paphos
- Aradippou Police Station
- Lycavitos Police Station, Nicosia
- Holding facilities for immigration
detainees at Larnaca Airport and at the
former Famagusta Police
Station, Larnaca
Prisons
- Nicosia Central Prisons
Psychiatric establishments
- Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital
Establishments for children
- Nicosia Hostel, Latsia
- Paphos Home for Children
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