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How the International Committee of the Red Cross Helps to Combat torture: ICRC visits to persons deprived of their freedom in situations of internal disturbances and tension: aims and methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Francis Amar  and
Hans-Peter Gasser
Francis Amar
Affiliation:
ICRC Assistant Delegate General for Europe and North America
Hans-Peter Gasser
Affiliation:
Legal Adviser to the ICRC Directorate
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Extract

The International Committee of the Red Cross welcomes all attempts to strengthen the protection against torture of persons deprived of their freedom. It therefore welcomes the adoption of the European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, which should enable an effective system of control to be established for the prevention and elimination of such inhuman practices in the member countries of the Council of Europe that may have ratified the Convention.

Type
The Struggle Against Torture
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 29 , Issue 268 , February 1989 , pp. 26 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1989

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References

* A summary of the statements made by ICRC representatives Francis Amar, Assistant Delegate General for Europe and North America, and Hans-Peter Gasser, Legal Adviser to the Directorate, during the European Seminar on the implementation of the European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Strasbourg, 7 and 8 November 1988).