Statement of principles relating to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in the context of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic

• Police / Law enforcement
• Prisons
• Immigration detention
• Psychiatric establishments / Social care institutions
• Juveniles
• Women
• Accountability / complaints mechanisms
• Transport

Police / Law enforcement

• Police custody
• Developments concerning CPT standards in respect of police custody
• Access to a lawyer as a means of preventing ill-treatment
• Preventing police torture and other forms of ill-treatment
• Electrical discharge weapons

Prisons   

• Imprisonment
• Developments concerning CPT standards in respect of imprisonment
• Living space per prisoner in prison establishments
• Solitary confinement of prisoners
• Remand detention
• Women in prison [Factsheet]
• The situation of life-sentenced prisoners
• Health-care services in prisons
• Inspection of a prison medical service by a CPT doctor [Checklist]
• A decency threshold for prisons – criteria for assessing conditions of detention
• Combating prison overcrowding

Immigration detention

• Immigration detention [Factsheet]
• Foreign nationals detained under aliens legislation
• Safeguards for irregular migrants deprived of their liberty
• Deportation of foreign nationals by air
• The prevention of ill-treatment of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty in the context of forced removals at borders

Psychiatric establishments / Social care institutions

• Involuntary placement in psychiatric establishments
• Means of restraint in psychiatric establishments for adults
• Evaluation of a psychiatric hospital [Checklist]
• CPT visits to social care institutions where persons may be deprived of their liberty [Checklist]
• Persons deprived of their liberty in social care establishments [Factsheet]

Juveniles

• Juveniles deprived of their liberty under criminal legislation

Women

• Women in prison [Factsheet]
• Women deprived of their liberty

Accountability / complaints mechanisms

• Complaints mechanisms
• Combating impunity
• Documenting and reporting medical evidence of ill-treatment

Transport

• Transport of detainees [Factsheet]