CONTENTS
1 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL
PREVENTIVE MECHANISM IN 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.2 Cooperation with non-governmental organisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.1.3 Visits to places of deprivation of liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.4 Realisation of NPM recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.5 International and other activities of the NPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.1.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 REVIEW OF VISITS TO INSTITUTIONS AND CERTAIN OTHER ACTIVITIES
OF THE NPM IN 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15
2.1 Visits to institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2 Review of other NPM’s activities in 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3 VISITS TO PLACES OF DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.1 Visits to Social Care Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2 Visits to Special Social Care Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.3 Visits to Psychiatric Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.4 Visits to Prisons and Juvenile Prisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38
3.5 Visit to the Asylum Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.6 Visits to Police Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.7 Visits to Residential Treatment Institutions, Youth Homes and the Special
Education, Work and Care Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
44
4 APPENDIXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.1 Appendix: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Slovenian NPM's 10th Anniversary Conference Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.2 Appendix: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
ct Ratifying The Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,
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Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.3 Appendix: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
About NPM in the Human Rights Ombudsman Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.4 APPENDIX: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
About NPM in the Rules of Procedure of the Human Rights Ombudsman . . . . . . . . . . . 69