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)