CPT: 11TH GENERAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE ...........................................................................................................................................7
ACTIVITIES IN 2000 ........................................................................................................................8
Visits...............................................................................................................................................................8
Meetings .......................................................................................................................................................10
Publications ..................................................................................................................................................10
Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) .........................10
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES........................................................................................................11
The Convention and its Protocols..................................................................................................................11
CPT membership ..........................................................................................................................................11
Administrative and financial questions ........................................................................................................12
SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING CPT STANDARDS
IN RESPECT OF IMPRISONMENT ............................................................................................13
Staff-prisoner relations .................................................................................................................................13
Inter-prisoner violence..................................................................................................................................13
Prison overcrowding.....................................................................................................................................14
Large capacity dormitories ...........................................................................................................................14
Access to natural light and fresh air .............................................................................................................15
Transmissible diseases..................................................................................................................................15
High security units........................................................................................................................................16
Life-sentenced and other long-term prisoners ..............................................................................................17
APPENDIX 1 ....................................................................................................................................18
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Signatures and ratifications of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.........................................................................18
The CPT's field of operations ..............................................................................................................19
Signatures and ratifications of Protocols Nos. 1 and 2 to the European Convention
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment .........................20
APPENDIX 2 ....................................................................................................................................21
State-by-State table showing the number of visits by the CPT, visit reports sent to Governments and
reports published...........................................................................................................................................21
APPENDIX 3 ....................................................................................................................................22
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B.
Members of the CPT............................................................................................................................22
Secretariat of the CPT..........................................................................................................................23
APPENDIX 4 ....................................................................................................................................24
Places of detention visited by CPT delegations in 2000 ..............................................................................24
APPENDIX 5 ....................................................................................................................................31
Exchange of letters between the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the CPT
concerning the monitoring of the conditions of imprisonment and treatment of certain persons
convicted by the Tribunal .............................................................................................................................31