I
Implementation of THE Duties and Powers Of The
National Preventive Mechanism in 2012 ...............................7
1.
Introduction .................................................................................................... 7
2.
Visits to prisons, a juvenile prison and a youth detention centre ................. 15
3.
Visits to police stations ................................................................................ 31
4.
Visits to psychiatric hospitals ....................................................................... 55
5.
Visits to special social care institutions ........................................................ 71
6.
Visits to social care institutions (nursing homes) ........................................ 77
7.
Visit to the Asylum Centre and the Aliens Centre ...................................... 101
8.
Visits to institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents
with emotional and behavioural disorders ................................................. 117
9.
Visit to the 17th Military Police Battalion of the Slovenian Armed Forces .....127
II
Review of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM)
activities in 2012 ........................................................................137
III
UN DOCUMENTS ........................................................................... 155
1.
UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment .......................................................................... 155
2.
Act of ratification of the optional protocol to the convention against torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment .............. 177
3.
Provisional statement on the role of judicial review and
due process in the prevention of torture in prisons .................................... 203
Summary. .............................................................................................. 205
I.
Introduction............................................................................................ 205
II. Lack of institutional protection.................................................................. 205
III. Due process........................................................................................... 207
IV. Judicial review........................................................................................ 209
V. Recommendation. .................................................................................. 211