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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on
Turkey
Strasbourg, 06.03.2008 - The Council of Europe's Committee for the prevention
of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has published
today the report on its visit to Turkey in May 2007, together with the
response
of the Turkish Government. During that visit, the CPT's delegation went to
Imralı High-Security Closed Prison and examined the treatment of the
establishment's sole inmate, Abdullah Öcalan.
The delegation looked into what action had been taken to implement the
recommendations made after earlier CPT visits as regards the prisoner's
conditions of detention, and reviewed the situation concerning access to Imralı
Island for his family members and lawyers.
The state of the prisoner's health was also examined. As regards more
particularly the recent allegations of intoxication by heavy metals, this
question is the subject of an Addendum to the visit report.
The above-mentioned documents are available on the
CPT's website.
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