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Human Rights Excursion in Europe: the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and its Visit to the United Kingdom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2009
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“Todays prison seems to be more of a hotel than a real prison”, and “jailbirds live better lives than normal people do”, are phrases which you can hear quite often. The visit of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereafter CPT or the Committee) showed that this is certainly not true for British prisons. This Committee visited the United Kingdom from July 29 to August 10,1990 and drew an extensive report on its findings, to which the British Government reacted.
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1 See, respectively, CPT/Inf. (91) 15 and CPT/Inf. (91) 16.
2 Accepted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on November 26,1987.
3 Article 1 of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.
4 Id., Art. 2 jo 7.
5 See, e.g., the preface of CPT/Inf. (91)15.
6 Supra note 3, Art. 4(4).
7 Id., Arts. 7(2) and 14(2).
8 See for a more detailed description of the members of the Committee and the visits: Evans, M. and Morgan, R., The European Convenlionfor the Prevention ofTorlwe: Operational Practice, 42 ICLQ 590–614 (1992).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
9 Supra note 3, Art. 10.
10 Supra note 3, Art. 11.
11 Rules of Procedure, Art. 30.
12 Klerk, Y., Eerste Algemene Verslag van hel Europese Martelingencomiti, 16–7NJCM-bulletin 665–673 (1991).Google Scholar
13 3 European Human Rights Report 104, at 126.
14 Greek case, 1969 Y.B. Eur. Conv. on Hum. Rts.
15 Supra, note 11.