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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Greece
Strasbourg, 08.02.2008 – The Greek government
has requested the publication of the report of
the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on an ad
hoc visit to Greece in February 2007, together with the authorities’
response.
In the course of the ad hoc visit, the CPT
reviewed the treatment of persons detained by law enforcement officials and
examined the conditions of detention in police and border guard stations, coast
guard posts and in special facilities for illegal migrants in order to evaluate
progress made since the CPT’s last visit to Greece, in 2005. The CPT also paid a
targeted visit to Korydallos Men’s Prison in order to examine the conditions of
detention in the segregation units and to assess developments in relation to the
prison’s health-care service.
The CPT’s visit
report and the response of the Greek
Government are available in English on the CPT’s website:
http://www.cpt.coe.int .
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