2.3
RESTRICTION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY
FIELD OF WORK
2.2 DISCRIMINATION
3. Restriction of personal liberty
2014
RESOLVED AND FOUNDED
Index
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2015
NO. OF
RESOLVED
NO. OF
FOUNDED
Percentage of founded
among resolved
173
176
101.7
151
28
18.5
3.1 Detainees
19
22
115.8
17
2
11.8
3.2 Prisoners
95
101
106.3
90
13
14.4
3.3 Psychiatric patients
29
21
72.4
16
4
25
3.4 Persons in
social care institutions
12
12
100
11
5
45.5
3.5 Youth homes
1
2
200
1
0
0
3.6 Illegal aliens
and asylum seekers
0
1
200
0
0
-
3.7 Persons in police detention
0
1
200
1
0
0
3.8 Forensic psychiatry
13
13
100
12
3
25
4
3
75
3
1
33.3
3.9 Other
2.3.1 General observations
This chapter contains findings established from complaints concerning the restriction of personal liberty, and
concerns of individuals deprived of their liberty, or whose freedom of movement was restricted for different
reasons. These include detainees, convicted persons serving sentences in (home) confinement, persons in
the unit for forensic psychiatry, minors in youth homes, minors in correctional and residential treatment
institutions and special education institutions, people with mental disorders or diseases in social and healthcare institutions, and aliens at the Aliens Centre.
More complaints were received from imprisoned persons (detainees, prisoners) in 2015 than in 2014. We
considered 22 complaints from detainees (19 in 2014) and 101 complaints from convicted persons (95 in 2014)
(other complaints in this field are presented under individual sub-sections). In addition to handling individual
complaints, we also continued to visit prisons for the purpose of implementing the tasks and powers under
the National Prevention Mechanism (NPM), which is presented in a special report.
Our work in this field was aimed at establishing whether the state consistently observes the rules and standards
to which it is bound by the Constitution and international conventions to respect human rights when depriving
people of their liberty, particularly regarding the human personality and dignity. When convicted persons are
subject to penal sanctions, they must be ensured all fundamental human rights, except those explicitly deprived
or restricted by law. The complaints of detainees and convicted persons were verified (in some cases with visits)
at the relevant bodies (e.g. courts), particularly the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, prisons
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