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Contents
Activities during the period 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Periodic visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Ad hoc visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Monitoring on behalf of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
High-level talks with national authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Plenary meetings and activities of subgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Contacts with other bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Conference on new partnerships for torture prevention in Europe . . . . . . . . . 17
Publication of CPT visit reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Preliminary remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Selected publications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Report on the periodic visit to Belgium in September/October 2009. . . . . . . . 22
Report on the ad hoc visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2009
and response of the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Report on the ad hoc visit to Italy in July 2009 and response of
the Italian authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Report on the ad hoc visit to Moldova in July 2009 and response
of the Moldovan authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Report on the periodic visit to Montenegro in September 2008 and
response of the Montenegrin authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Report on the periodic visit to Sweden in June 2009 and response
of the Swedish authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Report on the periodic visit to Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
in November/December 2008 and response of the United Kingdom
authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Electrical discharge weapons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Preliminary remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
General principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Application of these principles to specific situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Instructions and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Technical aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Medical aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Post-incident procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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