[prisoner-rights] Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes report on Lithuania

Strasbourg, 23.02.2006 - The Council of Europe’s Committee for the
Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CPT) has published today the report on its visit to Lithuania in February
2004, together with the response of the Lithuanian Government. These
documents have been made public at the request of the Lithuanian
authorities.

During the 2004 visit, the CPT followed up a number of issues examined
during its first visit to to the country in 2000. Particular attention was
paid to the treatment of persons detained by the police and the legal
safeguards provided to such persons, as well as to the conditions of
detention in prisons and police establishments. For the first time in
Lithuania, the Committee visited a juvenile prison and a psychiatric
hospital.

The CPT’s report on its 2004 visit and the response of the Lithuanian
authorities are available on the Committee's web site: http://www.cpt.coe