Annual Report 2014 of the National Preventive Mechanism
388. A working meeting was held with the Directorate General for the Police
(Dirección General de la Policía –DGP) and Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación
Aérea (AENA), to continue making progress on improving the conditions of deprivation
of liberty of persons remaining in Rooms for Persons Refused Entry and Seeking
Asylum at Terminals 1 and 4 Satellite of the CNP at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas
Airport.
389. The NPM cooperates with human rights institutions of other countries,
carrying out workshops on the mandate and activity carried out by the Spanish NPM. In
2014 working sessions were held with the Ombudsman of the Republic of Georgia,
within the context of cooperation of the Association of Ombudsmen of the
Mediterranean (AOM); and with a delegation of the Ombudsman of Turkey, whose visit
was included within a project to assist in the start up of the institution of the
Ombudsman in that country, financed in full by the European Union and led by the
Ombudsman for Spain and the Ombudsman for France.
390. It must be pointed out that, during the working trips of the personnel of the
institution, occasionally, visits are made to Spanish prisoners in foreign
penitentiary centres (CP), to know their situation and the assistance that they receive
from the Spanish consular services. In 2014, the Ombudsman in person made three
visits at which she interviewed Spanish prisoners: the CP of Rabat-Salé 1 in Morocco
(in March), the Penal Cotopaxi at Quito (Ecuador) in May and the Penal de Inca in
México City (in October). In addition, the First Assistant visited on 13 June the citizens
imprisoned at the CP of Tangiers (Morocco). As a consequence of these visits, the
Migrations and Equal Treatment Department commenced action as regards the
particular situations of the interviewed inmates.
Also in this context, the working meeting held by the Ombudsman for Spain with the
Ombudsman for Colombia must be pointed out at which, among other matters the
situation of Spanish prisoners in Colombia and of Colombian prisoners in Spain was
discussed, to establish future channels for cooperation. Both institutions cooperated in
past for the benefit of Spanish prisoners in the Latin American country and the result of
this work was the transfer of a seriously ill Spanish prisoner for him to serve the rest of
his sentence in a Spanish penitentiary centre.
391. Lastly to be pointed out are the visits made by the Ombudsman in person to
Centres for the Internment of Foreign Nationals, to know the situation in which
migrants are held in other European countries: in Paris -11 February - the Centre de
Rétention du Mesnil-Amelot; in London -27 October - the Brook House Immigration
Removal Centre, and in Rotterdam -24 November - the Detentiecentrum.
After these visits, Recommendations and Suggestions were made to the Directorate
General for the Police to improve the conditions of CIE, given some of the practices
observed.
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