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14. Dissemination, media
space, and the condition of the courtyard. In connection with this report,
the media also covered the working conditions of the policemen on duty
in the holding facilities.
There were some media reports on the NPM’s visit conducted in 2016 as
well; however, their number did not reach ten per site. In order to increase
publicity and transparency, and to promptly inform members of the CCB,
I publish a news flash on each and every NPM visit on the homepage of the
National Preventive Mechanism.
It deserves special mention that on June 22, 2016, on the tenth anniversary
of the OPCAT, I held a press conference in my Office.
Upon the APT’s request, I also joined the campaign organized on the
occasion of the tenth anniversary. Within the campaign’s frameworks, during the press conference, I presented the first comprehensive annual report
of the NPM, as well as a short film with Hungarian subtitles, made by the
APT to commemorate the anniversary.
A short report on the lessons of the NPM’s visit to the Juvenile
Penitentiary Institution in Tököl was published in English on the APT’s
homepage.232 In this short report, I pointed out, inter alia, that the holding
unit of the institution had been renovated, in compliance with the relevant
international and domestic regulations, in the wake of my visit and my
report published thereon.
14.2.
Dissemination
Educating the professionals of the future, participating in conferences
are an efficient means of disseminating knowledge necessary for the
prevention of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment. Staff
members of the Department deliver, both regularly and on ad hoc basis,
lectures in various domestic higher education institutions. Students
majoring in law or psychology at several universities (ELTE, University
of Pécs, University of Debrecen, Pázmány Péter University, Semmelweis
University, University of Szeged) were lectured on interpreting the concept of places of detention, on the concept and prevention of torture.
The non-mandatory course “The Lucifer effect and beyond. How to prevent
torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in closed institutions?” was
launched for the second year at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
of the University of Pécs.
Gergely Fliegauf regularly delivered lectures and practice lessons at the
graduate school of criminology of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
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