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04.04.2008 - 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 25 March to 2 April 2008.
One of the main objectives of the visit was to examine the application of the measure of surgical castration to persons sentenced to “protective treatment”.
The delegation also paid a follow-up visit to Section E of Valdice Prison, which accommodates persons sentenced to life imprisonment as well as “troublesome” or “dangerous” high security prisoners. The aim of the visit was to review the treatment and conditions of detention of these prisoners, in the light of the recommendations made by the CPT after its previous visit to the Czech Republic in 2006.
In the course of the visit, the CPT's delegation met Dzamila STEHLIKOVA, Minister for Human Rights, Marek ŠNAJDR, First Deputy Minister of Health, Markéta HELLEROVÁ, Deputy Minister of Health, and Martin MOULIS, Deputy Minister of Justice. The delegation also met with leading sexologists in the Czech Republic, and with members of the Commissions responsible for the approval of applications for surgical castration.
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)
- Pétur HAUKSSON, 2nd Vice-President of the CPT (Icelander)
They were supported by Hugh CHETWYND, Head of Division, and Marco LEIDEKKER of the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by three experts: Tim HARDING, former Director of the University Institute of Forensic Medicine, Geneva (Switzerland), Veronica PIMENOFF, Expert for psychiatry at the administrative court of Kuopio (Finland), and Jurgen VAN POECKE, Director of Bruges Prison (Belgium).
The delegation visited the following places:
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Justice
- Kuřim Prison
- Valdíce Prison
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Health
- Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital
- Havlíčkův Brod Psychiatric Hospital
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