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In terms of reprisals, we specify that after the SPT visit, a person was designated
as a focal point for investigating possible post-visit reprisals, but no such situations
were reported. During the subsequent visits by the representatives of the Field,
they took proactive actions to collect information on possible post-visit reprisals
without identifying such cases.
Visited authorities that have subordinate places of detention have been informed
about their obligation to comply with the provisions of Art. 15 of the Optional
Protocol, according to which ”No authority or official shall order, apply, permit
or tolerate any sanction against any person or organization for having
communicated to the Subcommittee on Prevention or to its delegates any
information, whether true or false, and no such person or organization shall be
otherwise prejudiced in any way”.
Also, the public authorities were reminded the provisions of Article 21 (1) of the
Optional Protocol, according to which ”No authority or official shall order, apply,
permit or tolerate any sanction against any person or organization for having
communicated to the national preventive mechanism any information, whether
true or false, and no such person or organization shall be otherwise prejudiced in
any way”, as well as those of art. 2910 of the Law No. 35/1997 regarding the
organization and functioning of the People's Advocate Institution, republished,
with the subsequent amendments and completions, which state that "No person
can be held accountable for the information communicated to the visiting team
members".
Please note that during May-July 2016, visits were made to more types of detention
facilities, of which we mention:
Penitentiaries: Ploieşti Penitentiary, Poarta Albă Penitentiary, Iaşi Penitentiary, Botoşani Penitentiary,
Craiova Penitentiary;
Centres for Children: "Maternus" Maternal Center Iaşi, "Ana" Placement Centre Râmnicu Vâlcea, "Sfântul
Stelian" Centre Ghimbav Braşov, "Cristina" Community Services Complex Constanţa County, "Dacia"
Placement Centre Braşov;
Psychiatric hospitals and centres for neuropsychiatric recovery and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation:
"Socola" Psychiatric Hospital Iaşi, Poiana Mare Dolj Psychiatric Hospital, Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation and
Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Centre for Adults with Disabilities "Călineşti";
Detention and Remand Centres: Detention and Remand Centre No. 1 Bucharest, Detention and Remand
Centre Vaslui, Detention and Remand Centre Neamţ, Detention and Remand Centre Timiş;
Residential Homes for the Elderly: The home for elderly people "Sf. Elena "Târgovişte, the home for elderly
people Periş - Ilfov County, the home for elderly people Bacău, the home for elderly people Braşov, the
home for elderly people Gherla;
Centres for Migrants: Accommodation and Procedures Centre for Asylum Seekers Giurgiu, Centre for
Accommodation of Aliens Taken into Public Custody Arad.
In this context, with regard to the prevention of reprisals, we mention:
► On July 12, 2016, the representatives of Bacău Zonal Centre and of Iaşi Territorial Office
carried out the verification of the issues reported in the press, regarding the protests of persons
deprived of their liberty in Iaşi Penitentiary, who expressed their discontent with the conditions
of detention and resorted to various forms of protest, escalating buildings, burning objects and
refusing food.
With regard to the protests of July 11, 2016, they began at 7.10 PM in Sections 9,
3, 5, 7 and 8, when inmates offended security personnel, knocked in the bars of
the windows, in the doors of the rooms and in the dishes, destroyed and removed
some outside nets from the windows.
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