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Publication of CPT visit reports
45. The CPT’s delegation found that there had been little improvement to the
living conditions of forensic and acute patients at the Sokolac Psychiatric Clinic, with
the notable exception of the construction of a new hospital refectory. The report
contains detailed recommendations aimed at remedying this problem. Emphasis is
also placed on the need to take measures to reinforce staffing levels and introduce
individual treatment plans for each patient. In response, the authorities provide
information on the ongoing measures being taken to improve living conditions at the
Clinic, and state that all patients do have an individual treatment plan.
On the day before the visit, patients at the Zenica Prison Forensic Psychiatric
Annexe had been moved to a recently renovated facility located outside the main
prison perimeter wall. Living conditions in this new facility were distinctly better
than those that had prevailed in the Annexe’s former location, in the prison’s highsecurity unit. Nevertheless, they were still not ideal, and there had been no
improvements as regards treatment and staffing levels in the Annexe.
Most significantly, the authorities’ response provides information on an interEntity agreement for the setting up of a single forensic institution for the whole of the
country, the Sokolac Special Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry, a reform that has long
been advocated by the CPT.
Report and response published March 2010, CPT/Inf (2010) 10 and CPT/Inf (2010) 11
Report on the ad hoc visit to Italy in July 2009 and response of the
Italian authorities
(interception of migrants at sea)
46. The report addresses the policy of the Italian authorities to intercept, at sea,
migrants approaching Italy’s Southern Mediterranean maritime border and to send
them back to Libya or other non-European States (frequently referred to as the
“push-back” policy). The CPT’s delegation focused on push-back operations that
took place between May and the end of July 2009 and sought to examine the system
of safeguards in place to ensure that no one is sent to a country where there are
substantial grounds for believing that he/she would run a real risk of being subjected
to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The delegation also
examined the treatment afforded to migrants during the time that they were
deprived of their liberty by the Italian authorities in the course of such operations.
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