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European Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Denmark
Strasbourg, 25.09.2002 – The Danish government has
requested the publication of the report of the Council of Europe’s Committee
for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on its visit to Denmark in January/February
2002. The visit was carried out within the framework of the CPT’s programme of
periodic visits for 2002; it was the Committee’s third visit to Denmark. The
CPT visited a number of police stations, prisons and psychiatric establishments
inter alia in Copenhagen, Horsens and Nykøbing Sjælland, as well as the
Sandholm Foreigners Detention Centre. The Committee paid particular attention to
the use of solitary confinement of remand prisoners by court order, measures
taken to address inter-prisoner violence and intimidation and the conditions of
detention of aliens deprived of their liberty. The CPT also examined, for the
first time in Denmark, conditions and treatment in psychiatric institutions.
The Danish government is currently preparing its response to
the issues raised by the Committee.
The report is available in English on the website http://www.cpt.coe.int
