“European States should step up their efforts to completely eradicate any form of torture and ill-treatment”, said Mykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), on the occasion of the publication of the Committee's 2019 report on Thursday 28 May (https://bit.ly/2Ai6cz6).
“There has been undeniable progress since the CPT was set up in 1989”, he says, but “nowadays, when the prohibition of...