According to a press release on Thursday 20 April, a report by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) urges the 47 Council of Europe member states to use remand detention only as a measure of last resort and to provide remand prisoners with adequate detention conditions.
During visits to prisons throughout Europe, the CPT, “has often found that remand prisoners are held under very poor conditions and an impoverished regime”. In many European countries the persistent...