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.
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