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31 July, Strasbourg – The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) will publish a report on its ad hoc visit to Spain in 2024. The purpose of the visit was to examine the treatment of persons held in police and prison establishments in the autonomous community of Catalonia. To this end, the CPT delegation visited five prison establishments, one juvenile educational centre, and the Terrasa Prison Hospital, with a special focus on prisoners accommodated in closed regime departments and the use of restraint measures. Further, the delegation visited seven police establishments.
Contact: Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 3 90 21 47 04
1 August, Strasbourg – The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) will publish a follow-up report, adopted during its June plenary meeting, evaluating Spain’s progress in implementing the 19 recommendations issued to the country in an evaluation report, in 2019, on the prevention of corruption and the promotion of integrity in top executive functions of the central government and law enforcement agencies (National Police and Civil Guard). GRECO and Spain
Contact: Jaime Rodriguez, tel. +33 6 89 99 50 42
2 August, Poland – PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos will participate in a remembrance ceremony in Auschwitz in memory of the Roma and Sinti victims.
Contact : PACE Communication Division, tel. +33 3 88 41 31 93
4-9 August, Georgia – The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is organising the “Youth Labs for Democracy and Human Rights in Georgia”. The inaugural event will bring together young people from across the country - particularly from rural and minority communities - for a series of interactive workshops focused on democratic participation, human rights, and local engagement. Working in regional teams, participants will begin shaping their own community-based initiatives to promote active citizenship and human rights localisation. The initiative is implemented within the project “Advancing Participatory and Human Rights-Based Local Democracy in Georgia” within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Georgia 2024-2027 with support from the Austrian Development Cooperation.
Contact: Congress Communication Unit, tel. +33 3 88 41 38 90
6 August, Strasbourg – The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) will publish a report on its ad hoc visit to Bulgaria in September 2024. The objective of the visit was to assess the implementation of the CPT’s long-standing recommendations concerning the treatment and conditions of detention of foreign nationals deprived of their liberty according to alien's legislation.
Contact: Tatiana Baeva-Frachon, tel. +33 6 85 11 64 93
28 August, Alpbach (Austria) – The Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, will speak at the conference “Democracy in the Digital Age: Unmasking the Power of Deception” organised as part of the European Forum Alpbach.
Contact: Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (press.commissioner@coe.int)
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