The CPT and Belgium
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Belgium: Anti-torture committee calls for improved prison conditions, better care for psychiatric internees and stronger action against police brutality
In its report, the Committee referred to the public statement it had felt obliged to make in July 2017, calling on the authorities and all stakeholders to face up to their responsibilities and quickly find a solution for introducing a minimum service in prison establishments guaranteeing...
Exchange of views within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe concerning the CPT’s public statement on Belgium
The public statement addressed the ongoing failure of the Belgian authorities to put in place a minimum level of service to guarantee the rights of inmates during periods of industrial action by prison staff. Today’s discussion focused on the possible follow-up to the concerns voiced by the CPT....
Council of Europe anti-torture Committee issues public statement on Belgium
In its Statement, the Committee makes it clear that the failure to comply with this requirement may result in a large number of inmates being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, or in a worsening of situations already regarded as intolerable, in endangering the health and life of these...
Activities
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
- Visit news flash
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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10 7 3 |
| Reports adopted: | 10 |
| Reports published: | 10 |
| Automatic publication procedure: | No |
| Public Statement: | 1 |
