Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/04/2025
10:00 - 11:30
Location
Press Club Brussels Europe
Categories
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
will present its annual report for 2024 at the Press Club Brussels Europe and online from 10am CET on Thursday 24 April.
The annual report contains an overview of the CPT´s work to prevent torture and ill-treatment in places of detention across Europe last year*, highlighting in particular the questions of widespread prison overcrowding and the treatment of people held involuntarily in psychiatric institutions.
The Committee will also present a new Prison Standard setting out its thinking and standards concerning informal prisoner hierarchies, which continue to exist – to varying degrees – in a number of Council of Europe member states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union.
The annual report will be presented by:
– Dr Alan Mitchell, President of the CPT
– Hugh Chetwynd, Executive Secretary
The presentation, which will take place in English, will be followed by a question and answer session. It will also be possible to arrange media interviews on the spot.
Embargoed copies of the report are available in English and French upon request.
To take part in the presentation, or to receive a link to follow the event online, please e-mail the contacts below.
Media contacts:
– Andrew Cutting, Spokesperson/Media Officer (Brussels), tel. +32 485 217 202
– Jaime Rodriguez, Spokesperson/Media Officer (Strasbourg), tel. +33 90 21 47 04
In 2024, the CPT carried out 20 visits (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Türkiye). It visited 181 places of detention including 58 prisons 75 police stations, 18 psychiatric hospitals, 14 immigration detention centres and 4 social care institutions.