384. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, pursuant to article 23 of the
OPCAT, as in previous years, the annual report for 2013 was registered with the
Lower House of Parliament (27 May 2014) and remitted to the United Nations
Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture.
385. The Ombudsman appeared before the Mixed Committee of Relations with
the Ombudsman of the Parliament on 17 June 2014, to submit the 2013 report and
the report on Injury reports on people deprived of their liberty. The report was published
in the website of the Ombudsman’s Office on the date of the appearance.
For the dissemination of both reports, the representatives of civil society and
professional associations were invited and, from 30 October to 13 November 2014,
meetings were held with members of the General Council of the Spanish Legal
Profession, Red Acoge, Cruz Roja, the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees
(Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado –CEAR), the Association for Human
Rights of Spain (Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España –APDHE), Rights
International Spain (RIS), the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (Asociación
Unificada de la Guardia Civil –AUGC) and the National Union of Local Police Heads
and Executives (Unión Nacional de Jefes y Directivos de Policía Local –UNIJEPOL).
386. As regards the dissemination and publicising in 2014 of the competence,
operation and action of the NPM, technical experts of the Unit participated at the
Officers Academy of the Civil Guard, in the Round Table The Legal Profession Against
Torture at the Session against Torture organised by the Human Rights Section of the
Bar Association of Madrid (Colegio de Abogados de Madrid –ICAM), in the Legal
Congress of the Spanish Legal Professional organised by the Bar Association of
Malaga, at the I Congress on Human Rights of the Spanish Legal Profession on
Prevention of ill-treatment and torture of the Foundation of the Spanish Legal
Profession, and in the symposium Facing situations of vulnerability of children in
detection, organised by the Association for the Prevention of Torture in Geneva
(Switzerland). In addition, meetings have been held with entities of civil society in the
context of investigation projects on matters related to deprivation of liberty.
387. During the visit of a delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention
of Torture of the European Council (CPT) to Spain, in July 2014, a meeting was
held with it focused on the situation of foreign nationals deprived of liberty, in
accordance with immigration laws.
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