CPT: 17TH GENERAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE................................................................................................................................................................5
ACTIVITIES DURING THE PERIOD 1 AUGUST 2006 TO 31 JULY 2007................................................6
Visits .........................................................................................................................................................6
Meetings and working methods................................................................................................................9
Publications ............................................................................................................................................10
ORGANISATIONAL MATTERS......................................................................................................................11
The Convention establishing the CPT ....................................................................................................11
CPT membership ....................................................................................................................................11
Administrative and budgetary questions ................................................................................................12
APPENDICES.......................................................................................................................................................13
APPENDIX 1
The CPT’s mandate and modus operandi..........................................................................................14
APPENDIX 2
Signatures and ratifications of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (ECPT).........................................................15
APPENDIX 3
The CPT's field of operations ............................................................................................................16
APPENDIX 4
State-by-State table showing the number of visits by the CPT,
visit reports sent and reports published .............................................................................................17
APPENDIX 5
Members of the CPT .........................................................................................................................18
APPENDIX 6
Secretariat of the CPT .......................................................................................................................19
APPENDIX 7
Countries and places of detention visited by CPT delegations
during the period 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007 .............................................................................20
APPENDIX 8
Statement by the President of the CPT at the Parliamentary Assembly debate
on the State of Human Rights and Democracy in Europe on 18 April 2007 ....................................27
APPENDIX 9
Public statement concerning the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation ...............................29