The CPT and Belgium
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) carries out a periodic visit to Belgium
The main objective of the visit was to assess the treatment afforded to persons deprived of their liberty in prisons and forensic psychiatric centres (FPCs). To this end, the delegation visited five prisons in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia, as well as the FPCs in Antwerp and Ghent. On the...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee (CPT) publishes two reports on the monitoring of a Frontex-supported return operation from Belgium and Cyprus to the Democratic Republic of Congo
The two reports examine the treatment and conditions of detention of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty under immigration legislation and the safeguards afforded to them in the context of their removal. The CPT sent, for the first time, two delegations to observe the preparations and...
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes the report on its visit to prisons in Belgium
The objective of the visit was to examine the situation in Belgian prisons in light of the recommendations made in the report on the periodic visit carried out in March/April 2017 and the public statement issued in July 2017. The delegation conducted follow-up visits to Antwerp, Lantin, and St....
Periodic visit: 15/05/2025 - 26/05/2025
Ad hoc visit: 07/11/2022 - 10/11/2022 (return flight)
- CPT report: English version
; French version [CPT/Inf (2023) 20]
- Executive summary: English version ; French version
- Executive summary: English version
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2023) 21]
- Publication news flash
- Visit news flash
Ad hoc visit: 02/11/2021 - 09/11/2021
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2022) 22]
- Executive summary: in French ; in English
- Executive summary: in French
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2022) 23]
- Publication news flash
- Visit news flash
Public Statement: 13/07/2017
- Public Statement concerning Belgium:
French version: Dutch version: [CPT/Inf (2017) 18] - Publication news flash
Periodic visit: 27/03/2017 - 06/04/2017
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2018) 8]
- Executive summary (in French):
- Executive summary (in French):
- Publication news flash
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2018) 23]
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High-level talks: 21/06/2016
Ad hoc visit: 07/05/2016 - 09/05/2016
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2016) 29]
- Executive summary (in French):
- Executive summary (in French):
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2016) 30]
- Publication news flash
Periodic visit: 24/09/2013 - 04/10/2013
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2016) 13]
- Executive summary (in French):
- Executive summary (in French):
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2016) 14]
- Publication news flash
Ad hoc visit: 23/04/2012 - 27/04/2012
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2012) 36]
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2012) 37]
- Publication news flash
Visit to Tilburg Prison: 17/10/2011 - 19/10/2011
- CPT report: French version: [CPT/Inf (2012) 19]
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2013) 10]
Periodic visit: 28/09/2009 - 07/10/2009
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2010) 24]
- Publication news flash
- Government response (in French): [CPT/Inf (2011) 7]
Periodic visit: 18/04/2005 - 27/04/2005
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2006) 15]
- Publication news flash
- Government response (in French): [CPT/inf (2006) 40]
Periodic visit: 25/11/2001 - 07/12/2001
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (2002) 25]
- Publication news flash
- Government response (in French): [CPT/inf (2003) 32]
Periodic visit: 31/08/1997 - 12/09/1997
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (98) 11]
- Government interim report (in French): [CPT/inf (99) 6]
- Appendices (in French):
- Appendices (in French):
- Government follow-up report (in French): Dutch version: [CPT/Inf (99) 11]
Periodic visit: 14/11/1993 - 23/11/1993
- CPT report (in French): [CPT/Inf (94) 15
- Government interim report (in French): [CPT/Inf (95) 6]
- Appendices (in French):
- Appendices (in French):
- Government follow-up report (in French): [CPT/Inf (96) 7]
Preventing torture in Europe
www.cpt.coe.int
| Ratification of ECPT: | 1991 |
Visits carried out:
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13 8 5 |
| Reports adopted: | 12 |
| Reports published: | 12 |
| Automatic publication procedure: | No |
| Public Statement: | 1 |
