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Strasbourg, 01.02.08 – A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for
the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
carried out a periodic visit to Portugal from 14 to 25 January 2008. It was the
CPT’s seventh visit to Portugal.
The CPT’s delegation reviewed the measures taken by the Portuguese authorities
to implement the recommendations made by the Committee after previous visits. In
this connection, particular attention was paid to the treatment of persons
deprived of their liberty by the police. The delegation also examined in detail
various issues concerning prisons, including the treatment of high security
prisoners and drug-related matters. In addition, the delegation visited two
psychiatric hospitals, where it focused on the living conditions as well as the
legal safeguards afforded to patients in the context of the involuntary
admission procedure and of consent to treatment.
The delegation had consultations with José CONDE RODRIGUES, Deputy State
Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, José MAGALHÃES, Deputy State Secretary of
the Ministry of Interior, Maria do CÉU SOARES MACHADO, High Commissioner for
Health, and Rui SÁ GOMES, Head of the Portuguese Prison Service, as well as with
other senior officials from the relevant Ministries. It also met Jorge NORONHA e
SILVEIRA, Deputy Ombudsman, and representatives of non-governmental
organisations active in areas of concern to the CPT.
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary observations
to the Portuguese authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI (Swiss),
Head of delegation
- Tim DALTON (Irish)
- Anna GAVRILOVA-ANCHEVA (Bulgarian)
- Emilio GINES SANTIDRIÁN (Spain)
- Andres LEHTMETS (Estonian), 2nd
Vice President of the CPT.
They were supported by Caterina BOLOGNESE and Marco LEIDEKKER of the CPT's
Secretariat, and assisted by two experts: Haritini DIPLA, Professor of
international law at the University of Athens (Greece), and Cyrille ORIZET,
psychiatrist, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris (France).
The delegation visited the following places of deprivation of liberty:
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior
Public Security Police
Coimbra
- District Headquarters, Avenida Elísio de Moura, Coimbra
Lisbon Area
- Estrada da Brandoa Police
Station, Amadora
- Rua André Resende Police Station,
Benfica
- Avenida Doutor Nuno Alvares Pereira
Police Station, Cacém
- Avenida Coronel Eduardo Galhardo
Police Station, Lisbon
- Rua Capelo Holding facilities,
Lisbon
Madeira
- Câmara de Lobos Police Station
- Funchal Divisional Police Station
- Ribeira Brava Police Station
Oporto
- Bela Vista Holding facilities
National Republican Guard
- Headquarters, Rua de Sá, Aveiro
- Headquarters, Avenida Dias da
Silva, Coimbra
- Headquarters, Condeixa-a-Nova
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Justice
- Judicial Police Criminal
Investigation Department (DIC), Rua do Largo de Santo António, Aveiro
- Judicial Police Headquarters, Rua
Assis Vaz, Oporto
- Coimbra Central Prison
- Coimbra Regional Prison, including
the Judicial Police detention facility
- Funchal Central Prison
- Funchal Regional Prison
- Judicial Police Prison, Oporto
- Monsanto High Security Prison,
Lisbon
- Oporto Central Prison
- São João de Deus Prison Hospital,
Caxias
- Holding cells of the Courthouse at Rua Gomes Freire, Lisbon
The delegation also interviewed remand prisoners at Lisbon Central Prison and the Judicial Police Prison in Lisbon.
Establishments under the Ministry of Health
- Miguel Bombarda Psychiatric
Hospital, Lisbon
- Psychiatric Unit at the Emergency
Department, Curry Cabral Hospital, Lisbon
- Casa de Saúde de São João de Deus,
Funchal
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