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Strasbourg, 22.06.2009 – A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CPT) recently carried out a ten-day visit to Sweden. The visit, which began on
9 June 2009, was the CPT’s fourth periodic visit to this country.
The CPT’s delegation reviewed measures taken by the Swedish authorities in
response to recommendations made by the Committee after previous visits.
Particular attention was paid to the safeguards offered to persons detained by
the police, the restrictions imposed on remand prisoners, and the situation of
sentenced prisoners held under conditions of isolation and in high-security
units. The conditions of detention of foreign nationals held in immigration
centres and in prisons were also examined.
During the visit, the CPT’s delegation met Tobias BILLSTRÖM, Minister for
Migration and Asylum Policy, Ragnwi MARCELIND, State Secretary at the Ministry
of Health and Social Affairs, Lars NYLÉN, Director General of the National
Prison and Probation Service, and Erna ZELMAN, Director General of the National
Board of Forensic Medicine. It also held consultations with senior officials
from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Police Board, the National Board of
Institutional Care, the National Board of Health and Welfare, and the Swedish
Migration Board. The delegation also met Mats MELIN, Kerstin ANDRÉ and Cecilia
NORDENFELT, Parliamentary Ombudsmen.
Further, discussions were held with the UNHCR Regional Office for the Baltic and
Nordic countries in Stockholm and with members 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 Swedish authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
- Pétur HAUKSSON (Icelander), 2nd Vice President of the CPT and Head of
delegation
- Ömer ATALAR (Turkish)
- Tim DALTON (Irish)
- Isolde KIEBER (Liechtensteiner)
- Jørgen Worsaae RASMUSSEN (Danish).
They were supported by Petya NESTOROVA (Head of Division), Isabelle
SERVOZ-GALLUCCI and Victor MUNTEANU of the CPT's Secretariat, and assisted by
two experts: Peter GREEN, forensic physician, Metropolitan Police Service and
St. George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom, and Rod MORGAN, Professor of
criminal justice, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
The delegation visited the following places:
Police establishments
- Gävle Police Department
- Police detention facility in Mölndal, Västra Götaland
- Örebro Police Department
- City Norrmalm Police Department, Stockholm
- Klara Police Station (T-Centralen), Stockholm
- Söderort Police Department (Hägersten), Stockholm
- Sollentuna Police Department, Stockholm
Prisons
- Gävle Remand Prison
- Gothenburg Remand Prison
- Hall Prison
- Kronoberg Remand Prison (immigration detainees)
- Kumla Prison
Migration Board establishments
- Migration Board detention centre, Gävle
- Migration Board detention centre, Märsta
Psychiatric establishments
- Department for Forensic Psychiatric Assessment, Huddinge (Stockholm)
- Psychiatric Clinic Sydväst, Huddinge (departments for compulsory care and
persons in need of in-patient care)
Juvenile establishments
- Fagareds Home for Young Persons, Lindome.
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