Complaint procedures and the
right to information in prisons
-A Handbook for National Preventive Mechanisms-
AUTHORS
This Handbook was written by Eszter Kirs of the Hungarian Helsinki
Committee.
It was written in the framework of the EU Project “Improving judicial
cooperation across the EU through harmonised detention standards - the role
of National Preventive Mechanisms”, implemented by the Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (Austria), and in cooperation
with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Hungary), the Bulgarian Helsinki
Committee (Bulgaria) and the Associazione Antigone (Italy).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The project team would like to thank all NPM representatives and other
stakeholders who participated in the consultations conducted in the
framework of this project. We greatly appreciate their commitment and
engagement.
Our most sincere gratitude goes also to all the members of the External
Advisory Board, Dirk van Zyl Smit, Wolfgang Gratz, Nora Sveaass, the
Association for the Prevention of Torture, and Alison Liebling.
A special thank you to Barbara Bernath, who has reviewed this draft and
provided valuable inputs and comments.
Their inputs, contributions and feedback have greatly improved this
publication.
Budapest, March 2021