The Council of Europe’s European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) elected last week its new Bureau.
For the third time, the CPT entrusted its presidency to Mauro Palma, an Italian specialist on prison issues.
Pétur Hauksson, an Icelandic psychiatrist, has been elected as the CPT’s 1st Vice-President. Previously, he held the post of 2nd Vice-President.
Haritini Dipla, a Greek professor of international law, is the CPT’s new 2nd Vice-President.
These three members of the CPT constitute the Committee’s Bureau.
The CPT has unlimited access to all places of detention (including prisons and juvenile detention centres, police stations; holding centres for immigration detainees and psychiatric hospitals) to see how persons deprived of their liberty are treated.
THE SHOULD HAD VOTED FOR THAT ANY OF THE ICELANDIC POLITICIANS AND BANKERS… THEY ARE REALLY TORTURE EXPERTS.. WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY HAVE BEEN DOING TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY WITH THE ICESAVE PROBLEM??
ICESAVE IS FOR ICELANDERS LIKE THE CROSS FOR JESUS… THEY HAVE TO CARRY THE CROSS WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO BE CRUCIFIED!!