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STRASBOURG, 02.10.2001 - A delegation of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recently carried out a twelve-day visit to Slovenia. The visit started in Ljubljana on 16 September 2001 and was carried out within the framework of the CPT’s programme of periodic visits for the year 2001. It was the Committee's second periodic visit to Slovenia, the previous visit having taken place in 1995 (*).
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Jagoda POLONCOVÁ, Head of the
delegation (Slovak)
- Mario FELICE (Maltese)
- Zdenĕk HÁJEK (Czech)
- Pétur HAUKSSON (Icelander)
- Mauro PALMA (Italian)
They were assisted by Catherine HAYES (medical doctor, Dublin, Ireland) and Clive MEUX (consultant forensic psychiatrist, Oxford, United Kingdom), as well as by two members of the CPT's Secretariat, Wolfgang RAU and Borys WŇDZ.
In the course of this second visit, the CPT’s delegation held consultations with Rado BOHINC, Minister of Interior, Ivan BIZJAK, Minister of Justice and Dušan KEBER, Minister of Health. The delegation also met Dušan VALENTINČIČ, Director of the Prison Administration, Andrej ANŽIČ, Deputy Director General of the Police, Luj ŠPROHAR, Director of the Office for the Disabled and Chronically Ill, and Žarko BOGUNOVIČ, Acting Director of the Office for Immigration and Refugees. Further, it had a meeting with the Ombudsman, Matjaž HANŽEK.
In the course of the visit, the CPT’s delegation followed up a number of issues examined during the first visit concerning, in particular, the treatment and conditions of detention of persons in police custody and in prison. Issues tackled for the first time in Slovenia included the situation of persons held under aliens legislation and the treatment of persons placed in psychiatric institutions.
The delegation visited the following places:
Police establishments
- Celje Police Station
- Police Detention Facility,
Ljubljanska Street, Celje
- Gornja Radgona Police Station
- Ilirska Bistrica Police Station
- Ljubljana-Bežigrad Police Station
- Ljubljana-Center Police Station
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Ljubljana-Polje Police Station
- Ljubljana-Vič Police Station
- Police Detention Facility, Povšetova
Street, Ljubljana
- Maribor I Police Station
- Murska Sobota Police Station
- Novo Mesto Police Station
- Ptuj Police
Station
- Rogaška Slatina Border Police
Station
- Šentilj Border Police Station
- Detention Centre
for Foreigners (COT), Ljubljana
- Detention Centre for Foreigners
(COT), Postojna
Prisons
- Dob Prison
- Ljubljana Prison
- Maribor Prison
Psychiatric establishments
- Hrastovec-Trate Institute for the Treatment
of Mental and Nervous Disorders
- Psychiatric Department of Maribor
General Hospital
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 during its visit to Slovenia and its consultations with the Slovenian authorities are confidential.
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The CPT was set up under the 1987 European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Forty one of the 43 member States of the Council of Europe are bound by the Convention: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Turkey, Ukraine 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. The Committee's 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 and to interview those persons in private. The Committee 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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Further information about the CPT may be obtained from:
- the CPT's
Internet Site: www.cpt.coe.int
- the Council of Europe Press
Department:
Sabine ZIMMER, tel.
+33/(0)3 88 41 25 97; fax +33/(0)3 88 41 27 89/90; e-mail sabine.zimmer@coe.int
- the
CPT’s Secretariat: tel. +33/(0)3 88 41 39 39; fax +33/(0)3 88 41 27
72; e-mail cptdoc@coe.int
(*) The CPT's report on its first visit to Slovenia, as well as the response of the Slovenian authorities, have been made public at the request of the Slovenian Government. These documents can be consulted on the CPT's website or obtained from the CPT's Secretariat.
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