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STRASBOURG, 16.10.95 - A delegation of the COUNCIL OF EUROPE Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has recently carried out a two week visit to Romania. The visit began in Bucharest on 24 September 1995.
The members of the delegation were:
The delegation was assisted by Odile DIAMANT-BERGER (Forensic doctor, Head of the Emergency Service at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Paris), André LAUBSCHER (Director of the Department of Nursing at the University Institutes of Geriatric Medicine and Psychiatry, Belle-Idée, Geneva), Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI (Medical doctor, Specialist in Forensic Medicine and Internal Medicine, Consultant at the Geneva University Institute of Forensic Medicine), Jean SABATINI (Psychiatrist, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, Forensic Medical Laboratory, "Alexis Carrel" Faculty of Medicine, Lyon) as well as by two members of the CPT's Secretariat and five interpreters.
The delegation visited the following places of detention:
Police establishments:
Arad:
Bucharest:
Cluj-Napoca:
Craiova:
Dej:
Timisoara:
Prisons:
Psychiatric Hospitals:
In accordance with Article 11 of the European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the information gathered by the CPT in relation to its visit to Romania and its consultations with the Romanian authorities are confidential. Further, the report on the visit, to be prepared by the CPT and transmitted to the Romanian Government, shall be confidential.
The CPT was set up under the 1987 European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The following member States of the Council of Europe are bound by the Convention: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic (as from 1 January 1996), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
The CPT is composed of persons from a variety of backgrounds: lawyers, medical doctors, prison experts, persons with parliamentary experience, etc. Its task is to examine the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty. For this purpose, it is entitled to visit any place where such persons are held by a public authority. It may formulate recommendations to strengthen, if necessary, their protection against torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
The CPT organises periodic visits as well as any other visits which appear to it to be required in the circumstances.
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