CPT: 9TH GENERAL REPORT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PREFACE ...............................................................................................................................................7
ACTIVITIES IN 1998 ............................................................................................................................8
Visits ...........................................................................................................................................8
Meetings ........................................................................................................................................9
Publications ...................................................................................................................................9
ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES ...........................................................................................................10
The Convention and its Protocols ..............................................................................................10
CPT membership ........................................................................................................................11
Administrative and financial questions ......................................................................................11
JUVENILES DEPRIVED OF THEIR LIBERTY ............................................................................12
Preliminary remarks ...................................................................................................................12
Safeguards against the ill-treatment of juveniles .....................................................................13
Detention centres for juveniles ..................................................................................................14
1. introduction ................................................................................................................14
2. material conditions of detention .................................................................................14
3. regime activities..........................................................................................................14
4. staffing issues..............................................................................................................15
5. contact with the outside world....................................................................................15
6. discipline.................................................................................................................15
7. complaints and inspection procedures ...................................................................15
8. medical issues .........................................................................................................16
APPENDIX 1:
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Signatures and ratifications of the European Convention
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment ......................................................................17
Expansion of the CPT's field of operations: 1989-1999 ......................18
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:
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B.
Members of the CPT .............................................................................21
Secretariat of the CPT ...........................................................................22
APPENDIX 3:
Places of detention visited by CPT delegations in 1998 ..................................23