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12.04.2006 - 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 the Czech Republic from 27 March to 7 April 2006. It was
the Committee's third periodic visit to the Czech Republic.
The visit provided an opportunity to assess the progress made since the previous
visit in April 2002. The CPT’s delegation focused on the treatment and regime of
prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, and of other prisoners placed in
special high security units. It also examined the situation of prisoners on
remand. A further area of interest was the treatment of patients in psychiatric
hospitals and of social care home residents, special attention being paid to the
use of net beds and other means of restraint. The delegation examined the
conditions of detention in a number of police stations and explored whether the
fundamental safeguards of the right of notification, right of access to a lawyer
and right of access to a doctor were functioning in a satisfactory and timely
manner.
In the course of the visit, the CPT's delegation met with Ivo HARTMANN, deputy
Minister of Justice, Marián HOŠEK, deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,
Miloslav KOUDELNÝ, deputy Minister of Interior, and Michal VÍT, deputy Minister
of Health, as well as Luděk KULA, Director General of the Prison Service and
other senior officials from relevant Ministries and Services. The delegation
also met with Otakar MOTEJL, the National Ombudsman, and with Svatopluk KARÁSEK,
the Government Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as with representatives of
Czech civil society.
At the end of the visit the delegation presented its preliminary conclusions to
the Czech authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Aleš BUTALA, Head of the delegation
(Slovenian)
- Ladislav GETLĺK (Slovak)
- Pétur HAUKSSON (Icelander)
- Renate KICKER (Austrian)
- Isolde KIEBER (Liechtenstein)
They were supported by Hugh CHETWYND, Head of Unit, and Marco LEIDEKKER of the
CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by three experts: James MacKEITH, Consultant
Forensic Psychiatrist (United Kingdom), Alan MITCHELL, Former Head of Health
Care, Scottish Prison Service (United Kingdom) and Jurgen VAN POECKE, Director
of Youth detention centre “De Grubbe”, Everberg (Belgium).
The delegation visited the following places:
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Interior
Brno region
- Brno District Police Station
Liberec region
- Liberec District Police Station,
Liberec
- Jablonec Police Station
- Jičin District Police Station
Ostrava region
- Masná District Police Station,
Ostrava
- Strma Municipal Police Station,
Ostrava
Plzeň region
- Dobřany Police Station
Prague region
- Kongresová Police Headquarters,
Prague
- Hybernska Police Station, Prague
- Vysehradska Police Station, Prague
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Justice
- Liberec Prison
- Mírov Prison
- Ostrava Prison
- Valdice Prison
The delegation also interviewed certain patients at Brno Prison Hospital, as
well as some recently arrived remand prisoners at Prague-Pankrác and
Prague-Ruzyně Prisons.
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Health
- Brno Psychiatric Hospital
- Dobřany Psychiatric Hospital
- Anti Alcoholic Detention Unit,
Ostrava Municipal Hospital
Establishments falling under the authority of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
- Střelice Social Care Home
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