08/03/2011 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
As a measure to further strengthen torture prevention mechanisms in Europe, the members of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) should be elected by PACE in order to vest them with enhanced democratic legitimacy and authority.
In a draft recommendation adopted today in Paris, the PACE Legal Affairs Committee invites the Committee of Ministers to amend the Convention accordingly and to also permit the automatic publication of the visit reports and of the comments of the Parties concerned. Finally, it invites the Committee of Ministers to place on its agenda and discuss as a matter of urgency any public statement adopted by the CPT.
The report, by Jean-Charles Gardetto (Monaco, EPP/CD), will be debated at the PACE plenary session in April.