CPT: 16TH GENERAL REPORT Publications 22. The well-established trend towards States lifting the veil of confidentiality and publishing CPT visit reports and government responses was confirmed once again during the period covered by this General Report. Over the last twelve months, reports on fourteen visits have been published by the Committee, at the request of the governments concerned. At the time of writing, 165 of the 206 visit reports so far drawn up have been placed in the public domain. A State-by-State table showing the current situation is set out in Appendix 4. 23. Further translations and updates of the “information pack”, containing various materials describing the CPT’s modus operandi and the standards developed by the Committee, have been produced during the last twelve months. The pack is currently available in nineteen languages and is posted in all of those languages on the CPT’s website; printed copies can be obtained from the Committee’s Secretariat. A new edition of the CD-ROM containing the whole of the CPT’s website was issued in December 2005. 24. Reference should also be made to the recent publication of “The treatment of prisoners – European standards” (Council of Europe Publishing) by Jim Murdoch, Professor of Public Law at Glasgow University. This book contains a comprehensive analysis of the CPT’s work to date and juxtaposes it with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. 11

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