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09.03.2005 - 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 visit to the Slovak Republic from 22 February to 3 March 2005. It was the Committee's third periodic visit to the Slovak Republic.
During the visit, the CPT's delegation followed up a number of issues examined during previous visits, in particular the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty by the police, as well as the situation in prisons and social services homes. For the first time in the Slovak Republic, the CPT visited psychiatric establishments.
In the course of the visit, the delegation held consultations with Daniel LIPŠIC, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Vladimír PALKO, Minister of the Interior, as well as senior officials responsible for the police, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and social services homes. It also met Pavel KANDRAC, Human Rights Ombudsman, and representatives of the Prosecutor-General's office.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Mario FELICE, Head of delegation
(Maltese)
- Marija DEFINIS-GOJANOVIĆ (Croatian)
- Zbigniew HOLDA (Polish)
- Ingrid LYCKE ELLINGSEN (Norwegian)
- Mauro PALMA (Italian).
They were supported by Edo KORLJAN and Bojana URUMOVA of the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by an expert, James MacKEITH, consultant forensic psychiatrist, London (United Kingdom).
The delegation visited the following places:
Police establishments
- Regional Police Directorate,
Bratislava
- Dubravka District Police
Directorate, Bratislava
- Dubravka Sub-district Police
Department, Bratislava
- Stare Mesto-Východ District Police
Directorate, Bratislava
- Regional Police Directorate, Košice
- District Police Directorate,
Trebišov
- Sub-District Police Department,
Trebišov
Prisons
- Bratislava Prison
- Ilava Prison
- Košice Prison
Psychiatric establishments
- Sokolovce Psychiatric Healthcare
Centre
- Veľké Zálužie Psychiatric Hospital
Social Services Homes
- Vel'ký Biel home for disabled women.
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