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Publication of preliminary observations
by Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee (CPT)
after visit to Finland in September 2003
Strasbourg,
21.10.2003 - During the visit, 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. The preliminary observations
made by the CPT's delegation at the end of the visit are published today with
the agreement of the Finnish authorities (more …)
