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[23.09.03]
- The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a visit to Finland from 7 to
17 September 2003. It was the Committee's third visit to Finland.
The
CPT’s delegation reviewed measures taken by the Finnish authorities in
response to the Committee’s recommendations made after its 1992 and 1998
visits, in particular as regards the safeguards offered to persons detained by
the police, the situation of remand prisoners in police and prison
establishments, and the treatment of immigration detainees, especially in the
recently opened Helsinki Custody Unit. For the first time in Finland, the
CPT’s delegation examined conditions and the operation of legal safeguards in
a forensic psychiatric establishment.
In
the course of the visit, the CPT's delegation met Johannes KOSKINEN, Minister of
Justice, Kari RAJAMÄKI, Minister of the Interior, Sinikka MÖNKÄRE, Minister
of Social Affairs and Health, Riitta-Leena PAUNIO, Parliamentary Ombudsman, and
Jaakko JONKKA, Deputy Chancellor of Justice. It also held talks with senior
officials from the Ministries of Justice, Interior, and Social Affairs and
Health, as well as with officials responsible for migration affairs at the
Ministry of Labour, and with Mikko PUUMALAINEN, Ombudsman for Minorities.
The
visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
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Andres LEHTMETS, 1st Vice-President of the CPT (Head of Delegation) (Estonian)
- Eugenijus GEFENAS (Lithuanian)
- Ingrid LYCKE ELLINGSEN (Norwegian)
- Mauro PALMA (Italian)
- Pieter Reinhard STOFFELEN (Dutch)
They
were supported by Wolfgang RAU, Head of Unit, and Borys WÒDZ of the CPT's
Secretariat, and assisted by Andrew RUTHERFORD, Professor of Criminology, Dean
of Faculty of Law, Southampton University, United Kingdom.
The
delegation visited the following places:
Police
establishments
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Helsinki Police Department
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Helsinki Mobile Police Airport Unit
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Kuopio District Police Station
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Lahti District Police Station
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Porvoo District Police Station
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Tampere District Police Station
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Turku District Police Station
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Ylä-Savo District Police Station, Iisalmi
Border
Guard establishments
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Helsinki West Harbour Crossing Point
Establishments
for persons detained under aliens legislation
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Helsinki Custody Unit
Prisons
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Kuopio Prison
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Prison of South-Western Finland, Turku (former Turku Remand Prison)
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Sukeva Prison
Psychiatric
establishments
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Niuvanniemi State Mental Hospital, Kuopio
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