United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CAT/OP/GBR/RONPM/1 Distr.: General 16 December 2020 Original: English English, French and Spanish only Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland undertaken from 8 to 19 September 2019: recommendations and observations addressed to the national preventive mechanism Report of the Subcommittee*, ** * In accordance with article 16 (1) of the Optional Protocol, the present report was transmitted confidentially to the national preventive mechanism on 26 February 2020. On 8 December 2020, the national preventive mechanism requested the Subcommittee to publish the report, in accordance with article 16 (2) of the Optional Protocol. ** The annex to the present document is being circulated in the language of submission only. GE.20-17195(E)

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