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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface .....................................................................................................................................................................3
I.
II.
III.
ACTIVITIES IN 1996 ..............................................................................................................................4
A.
Visits ..............................................................................................................................................4
B.
Meetings and follow-up of visits ..................................................................................................5
C.
Other questions...............................................................................................................................6
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES ...............................................................................................................8
A.
The Convention and its Protocols .................................................................................................8
B.
CPT membership ..........................................................................................................................9
C.
Meeting the challenge of the widening circle of Parties to the Convention ................................9
FOREIGN NATIONALS DETAINED UNDER ALIENS LEGISLATION ..................................11
A.
Preliminary remarks.....................................................................................................................11
B.
Detention facilities .......................................................................................................................11
C.
Safeguards during detention ........................................................................................................13
D.
Risk of ill-treatment after expulsion ............................................................................................13
E.
Means of coercion in the context of expulsion procedures.........................................................14
APPENDIX 1: A.
APPENDIX 2:
Signatures and ratifications of the European Convention
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment ..............................................................................................15
B.
Signatures and ratifications of Protocol No. 1 to the
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment .................................................17
C.
Signatures and ratifications of Protocol No. 2 to the
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment .................................................19
A. Members of the CPT listed in order of precedence ......................................................21
B.
APPENDIX 3:
Secretariat of the CPT ...................................................................................................22
Places of detention visited by CPT delegations in 1996 .......................................................23