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Contents / Languages

 

·                     This database contains all documents issued by the CPT (excluding press releases).

·                     It includes:
- all reports of the CPT (in most cases either English or French);
- all public statements made by the CPT (available in both English and French);
- the "substantive" sections of the CPT's Annual General Reports (available in both English and French).

·                     These documents types can be searched individually or together.

·                     Because of their length, all the documents have been split into sections (typically divided by chapters).

 

 

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Expression

Comments

violat*

Replaces any number of missing letters
(violation, violate, violates, violated, violator, violating etc.)

violate?

Replaces any single letter
(violated, violates)

"prison sentence"

Finds documents containing a phrase

police & violence

Finds documents containing both words (in any order)

inhuman | degrading

Finds documents containing either of the two words

[English keyboard "QWERTY": ALT - 124]

prison &^ remand

Finds documents containing the first word but not the second

[cell size]

Finds documents containing words which are within 80 characters of each other

 

·                     You may type uppercase or lowercase (they are treated the same).

·                     You may enter non-English characters (e.g. accents) or replace them by the corresponding English character.

 

 

Searching in specific fields (e.g. Keywords, Places, Persons, States)

 

·                     You may either use the "Alphabetical list" or the "Hierarchical list". (Click on the icons right of the field).

·                     In the latter case, you may decide if you wish to include narrower terms (e.g. if a search for "United Kingdom" should include "Scotland").

·                     You can access and print a list of the codes for Keywords, Places, Persons and States [PDF format].

 

 

Viewing the results

 

·                     The results are displayed below the search fields.  (If necessary, scroll down to see the results on this screen.

 

 

Accessing / downloading a document

 

·                     Click on the title of the section to see its text in Internet format (HTML).

·                     Click on the icons to download an original version of this document onto your computer or to view an original version within your browser.

 

 

Printing

 

·                     Depending on your browser you might have to click in the window (typically the text section) before printing.

 

Options

 

·                     By default, your search will retrieve at most 500 items.
(In case you get 500 results try changing this figure.)

·                     By default, you will view 20 items per page.
(You can change this, e.g. to see all items on one page in order to print a list.)

·                     By default, your search does not include word variations.
(If you decide to include word variations, your search will include grammatical variations of the same word: A search for "strike" will also find the words "strikes", "struck" etc.)