CAT/OP/PER/1
Contents
Page
I.
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................
3
II.
National preventive mechanism ....................................................................................................
3
III.
Situation of persons deprived of their liberty ................................................................................
4
A.
Detention in police stations and judicial police holding cells ...............................................
4
B.
Prisons ..................................................................................................................................
6
C.
Juvenile detention centres .....................................................................................................
13
D.
Psychiatric institutions ..........................................................................................................
15
Aspects of the legal and institutional framework for the prevention of torture
and ill-treatment ............................................................................................................................
16
A.
Definition of torture in national law .....................................................................................
16
B.
Public Defender Service .......................................................................................................
16
C.
The problem of impunity ......................................................................................................
16
D.
The problem of corruption ....................................................................................................
18
I.
List of persons with whom the Subcommittee met .......................................................................
20
II.
Places of deprivation of liberty visited ..........................................................................................
22
IV.
Annexes
2
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