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[19.06.03]
- A delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently carried out a
seven-day visit to France. The visit began on 11 June 2003. The main purpose of
the visit was to assess the current situation in the prison system, in
particular as regards overcrowding and the regimes offered to prisoners serving
long sentences.
In the course
of the visit, the delegation also examined developments concerning the treatment
of persons deprived of their liberty by law enforcement agencies, in the light
of instructions issued by the Ministry of the Interior, Internal Security and
Local Freedoms on the dignity of persons in police custody. The delegation held
in-depth discussions with the national authorities on the basic safeguards to be
offered to persons in police custody; particular emphasis was placed on the
implementation of the CPT’s recommendations concerning access to a lawyer as
from the outset of custody.
The visit was
carried out by the following members of the CPT:
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Marc NEVE (Head of delegation) (Belgian)
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Antoni ALEIX CAMP (Andorran)
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Petros MICHAELIDES (Cypriot)
They were assisted by
Wlodzimierz MARKIEWICZ, former Director General of the Polish Prison
Administration and by Jean-Louis MARTIN, medical doctor, Phénix Foundation, Chêne-Bougeries,
Switzerland, as well as by two members of the CPT’s Secretariat, Geneviève
MAYER (Deputy Executive Secretary) and Cyrille ORIZET.
During the visit, the
delegation met Dominique PERBEN, Minister for Justice and Pierre BEDIER,
State Secretary for Justice Property Programmes, as well as senior officials
from the Ministry of the Interior, Internal Security and Local Freedoms
(including the Deputy Director of the Minister’s Private Office) and the
Ministries of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Health, Family and Disabled
Persons. Further, the delegation held talks with Joël THORAVAL, President of
the National Consultative Commission of Human Rights and Pierre TRUCHE,
President of the National Commission for a Security Code of Conduct.
The delegation
visited the following places:
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Loos Remand Prison
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Toulon Remand Prison
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Clairvaux Prison
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The reception, research and judicial investigation departments of the 9th
and 16th districts of Paris
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