Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
Suicide
prevention
§106 AR 2014
Injury reports
§108 AR 2014
Restraint
measures
§109 AR 2014
Valencia CEIs, of Instruction 2/2014, issued by the Comisaría General de
Extranjería y Fronteras [General Headquarters for Immigration and Border
Control] on suicide prevention, has been remedied (we ascertained this
during our visits this year), consequently fulfilling the provisions of said
Instruction.
34. All injury reports issued by CEI medical services follow the form
provided in the study of Injury reports on people deprived of their liberty,
drawn up by the Ombudsman, except for the Murcia CIE, where the doctor
stated that she was unaware of this form and consequently requested a
copy.
35. The Madrid and Valencia CEIs have a specific ledger to enter any
inmates provisionally subject to solitary confinement. Nevertheless, no
record is made of the medical check-ups completed during the confinement,
nor is there any record of other restraint measures being applied.
The Barcelona CIE keeps a computerised record of provisional solitary
confinements, but not of the application of other measures.
Inmate
identification
§110 AR 2014
Body search
§111 AR 2014
Information on
rights and duties,
international
protection and
habeas corpus
§112 and 114 AR
2014
36. During the visits completed over 2016, we have ascertained that
inmates all called by name at all CIEs; if a name is shared by more than
one inmate, they are first called by name followed by a reference to their file
number.
37. We have continued to note differences with respect to whether or not
full body searches are carried out. At some CIEs, according to the
manager or public officers, these are not carried out or only as an exception,
whereas the interviewed inmates have stated that body searches are in fact
conducted.
38. Information provided to inmates, on their rights and duties, in a
language that they understand, varies depending on each CIE. This is why
the CGEF should translate the form into the most common languages
spoken by inmates.
Other forms providing information on the international protection available
at all centres should also be translated into more languages.
No information was found on the possibility of filing a habeas corpus, at
any of the centres visited.
Legal counsel
§113 AR 2014
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39. Of the CIEs visited during 2016, only the Murcia CIE lacks an agreement
with the local Bar Association to provide legal advisory services, which
exist at other CIEs. During our visit to the Barcelona CIE, complaints were
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