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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface .....................................................................................................................................................................4
I.
II.
III.
ACTIVITIES IN 1997 ..............................................................................................................................5
A.
Visits ..............................................................................................................................................5
B.
Meetings and follow-up of visits ..................................................................................................6
C.
Publications ....................................................................................................................................7
D.
Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1323 and Order No. 530 (1997)..............................8
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES ...............................................................................................................8
A.
The Convention and its Protocols .................................................................................................8
B.
CPT membership ..........................................................................................................................9
C.
Administrative and financial questions .......................................................................................10
D.
Implementation of the CPT's recommendations .........................................................................11
INVOLUNTARY PLACEMENT IN PSYCHIATRIC ESTABLISHMENTS
A.
Preliminary remarks ....................................................................................................................12
B.
Prevention of ill-treatment ...........................................................................................................12
C.
Patients' living conditions and treatment .....................................................................................13
D.
Staff ..............................................................................................................................................16
E.
Means of restraint.........................................................................................................................17
F.
Safeguards in the context of involuntary placement ...................................................................18
G.
Final remarks................................................................................................................................20