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STRASBOURG, 02.03.1998 - 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 seventeen day visit to Ukraine. The visit, which began in Kyiv on 8 February 1998, was organised within the framework of the CPT's programme of periodic visits for 1998.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:
They were assisted by Clive MEUX (Forensic Psychiatrist, Broadmoor Hospital, United Kingdom) and Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI (Medical Doctor, Specialist in Forensic Medicine and Internal Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland), as well as by two members of the CPT's Secretariat, Geneviève MAYER (Deputy Secretary of the CPT) and Petya NESTOROVA.
The delegation visited the following places of detention:
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Dnipropetrovsk
- Kirovskyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Zhovtnevyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Centre for the reception and allocation of vagrants
- Centre for administrative detention
- Militia Central holding facility (IVS)
- Treatment and Labour Detention Centre for the compulsory treatment of alcoholics (LTP)Kharkiv
- Frounzenskyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Kievskyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Pre-trial Prison No 313/203Kyiv
- Darnitzkyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Moskovskyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Shevchenkivskyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Zaliznichnyi District Command of the Internal Affairs
- Central Railway Station Division of the Transport Militia
- Boryspil Airport Division of the Transport Militia
- Centre for the reception and allocation of minors
- Centre for the reception and allocation of vagrants, Central Railway Station
- Militia Central holding facility (IVS)
Establishments under the authority of the Ministry of Health
- National High Security Psychiatric Hospital, Dnipropetrovsk
- Centre for forensic psychiatric assessment, Kyiv City
- Secure ward at Kyiv Emergency Hospital
Establishments under the authority of the State Security Service of Ukraine
- State Security Service Pre-trial Prison, Kyiv
Establishments under the authority of the State Committee for the Protection of National Borders
- Detention facilities at Boryspil Airport, Kyiv
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 Ukraine and its consultations with the Ukrainian authorities are confidential.
The CPT was set up under the 1987 European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. To date, 38 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, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia (as from 1 June 1998), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, 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. 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.
Further information may be obtained from:
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