Back Visit to Siberia by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture

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 two-week visit to the Russian Federation. The visit began on 25 September 2000 and was organised within the framework of the CPT's programme of periodic visits for 2000. It was the Committee's fifth visit to the Russian Federation.

The delegation focused its attention on Siberia, where it visited places of detention in the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk Regions and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Places visited included military detention facilities and a penal colony for women; this was the first time that a CPT delegation had examined the treatment of persons held in such places in the Russian Federation. The delegation also reviewed conditions of detention in the largest pre-trial establishment in Moscow, first visited by the CPT in 1998.

The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:

  • Ingrid LYCKE ELLINGSEN, First Vice-President of the CPT (Head of delegation) (Norwegian)
  • Zdenek HÁJEK (Czech)
  • Aurel KISTRUGA (Moldovan)
  • Andres LEHTMETS (Estonian)
  • Jagoda POLONCOVÁ (Slovakian)
  • Rudolf SCHMUCK (German).

They were assisted by Schack LYSTRUP (Chief Psychiatrist, Drammen Psychiatric Centre, Buskerud Central Hospital, Norway), James McMANUS (Senior Lecturer in Law, Dundee University, United Kingdom) and Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI (Specialist in forensic and internal medicine, Geneva, Switzerland) as well as by Petya NESTOROVA and Borys WÓDZ of the CPT’s Secretariat.

The delegation visited the following places:

Law enforcement establishments

Irkutsk Region

  • Temporary holding facility (IVS), Irkutsk
  • Sverdlovskyi District Command of Internal Affairs, Irkutsk
  • East-Siberian Regional Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (RUBOP), Irkutsk

Krasnoyarsk Territory

  • Temporary holding facility (IVS), Kansk
  • Temporary holding centre for juvenile offenders, Kansk
  • Temporary holding facility (IVS) at the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of Krasnoyarsk Territory, Krasnoyarsk
  • Temporary holding facility (IVS) at the Central District Command of Internal Affairs, Krasnoyarsk
  • Temporary holding facility (IVS) at the Zheleznodorozhnyi District Command of Internal Affairs, Krasnoyarsk 
  • Reception and distribution centre for administrative detainees, Krasnoyarsk

Novosibirsk Region

  • Temporary holding facility (IVS) No 2, Novosibirsk
  • Kirovskyi District Command of Internal Affairs, Novosibirsk

Penitentiary establishments

Moscow City

  • Pre-trial establishment (SIZO) No 2 (« Butyrka »)

Irkutsk Region

  • Strict regime colony No 3, Irkutsk
  • Colony No 11 for women, Bozoy settlement

Krasnoyarsk Territory

  • Educational colony for juveniles, Kansk
  • Novosibirsk Region
  • Strict regime colony No 8, Novosibirsk

Psychiatric establishments

Irkutsk Region

  • Regional psychiatric hospital No 1, Irkutsk

Krasnoyarsk Territory

  • Territorial psychiatric hospital No 2, Ovsianka (near Divnogorsk)
  • Inter-regional secure ward for psychiatric forensic assessment, Krasnoyarsk

Military detention facilities

Novosibirsk Region

  • Disciplinary battalion No 40, Novosibirsk
  • Garrison "Gauptvachta" (disciplinary unit), Novosibirsk.

 

12/10/2000
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