Strasbourg, 05.07.2007 – The Council of Europe's Committee for the prevention of
torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has published
today its report on the ad hoc visit to Italy
in June 2006, together with the Italian authorities’
response. These documents have been made
public at the request of the Italian authorities.
The main objective of the visit was
to examine the steps taken by the Italian authorities with regard to immigration
detainees, in response to the recommendations made by the Committee after its
previous visit to Italy in November/December 2004. For this purpose, the CPT
carried out follow-up visits to the former Holding Centre for foreigners at
Agrigento and to the First Help and Assistance Centre at Lampedusa. The
Committee also visited, for the first time, the Holding Centre and the First
Reception Centre for foreigners at Crotone and the Holding Centre for female
foreigners at Ragusa. The issue of deportations of foreign nationals carried out
from Crotone and Lampedusa Airports was also examined.
In their response, the Italian
authorities provide
detailed information on the measures taken to implement the recommendations made
by the CPT in the visit report.
The CPT’s visit
report and the
response of the Italian authorities are available on the Committee’s
website: http://www.cpt.coe.int
