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• Commissioner’s report on Malta: high time for reforms to safeguard media freedom and better protect the rights of refugees and women
• Anti-torture Committee Lithuania report: persistent violence in prisons, need to modernise prison estate
• New HELP online course on Prohibition of Ill-treatment, including in times of conflict
• Anti-torture committee highlights continuing overcrowding and staff shortages in Belgium’s prisons
• Anti-torture Committee on Bulgaria: inter-prisoner violence, health issues, poor material conditions, staff shortages
• Positive progress for German detainees, but serious concerns remain, says Anti Torture Committee
• Greece: Too many prisoners held in conditions that represent “an affront to their human dignity” according to CPT report
• Anti-torture Committee announces regular visits to eight countries in 2023
• CPT report on UK: persistent overcrowding and violence in prisons and insufficient legal safeguards for psychiatric patients
• Anti-torture Committee reiterates its recommendations to address inter-prisoner violence, informal hierarchy in Georgia’s “zonas”
• Prison overcrowding remains a problem in prisons in French-speaking Switzerland: Anti-torture committee report
• Prison overcrowding: Anti-torture committee calls for setting a limit to the number of inmates in every prison and promoting non-custodial measures
• Romanian prisons continue to face extensive challenges
• Anti-torture committee: police ill-treatment in Serbia remains a serious problem, but some progress observed in prisons
• Criminal conviction of independent journalist Vladislav Yesipenko further undermines media freedom in Crimea
• Torture prevention committee calls on Malta to improve treatment of detained migrants
• Croatia: anti-torture Committee publishes report on 2020 ad hoc visit
• CPT urges Spain to prevent and effectively investigate cases of prison ill-treatment
• Bulgaria: CPT issues public statement regretting persistent lack of progress addressing serious problems in social care homes and psychiatric hospitals
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Anti-torture committee calls for vigorous action to prevent police ill-treatment
• CPT calls on Sweden to improve conditions for remand prisoners
• North Macedonia: Cramped prison conditions, detainee ill treatment and opaque prison management among longstanding concerns for anti-torture committee
• France: Anti-torture Committee deplores conditions of detention, prison overcrowding and lack of psychiatric beds
• Implementing ECHR judgments: New factsheet on improving conditions of detention
• CPT Armenia report: Inter-prisoner violence, informal prisoner hierarchy, luxurious conditions for some inmates
• Anti-torture committee warns against impact of austerity measures on prison conditions
• Council of Europe anti-torture committee publishes report on Finland
• High-level webinar: impact of Covid-19 policies on human rights in Europe
• What measures should be taken against the trade in goods used for torture or execution?
• Poland must adopt clear and effective procedures for women to access lawful abortion