- The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture has detected ill-treatment in Spanish State prisons, police centres, psychiatric prison hospitals and juvenile detention centres. Lehendakari has asked the Spanish authorities for "effective and effective measures" in the fight against violence.
The Commission received the conclusions of the visit made in September 2020 and received the report Eldiario.es. During the visit, the European Commission considers that the complaints lodged by the prisoners are credible and that the medical reports coincide with the allegations of ill-treatment. Among other things, prisoners receive slap, punches, kicks and blows with the pores of prison officials, and the so-called fallacy torture method is to repeatedly hit the base with the cane. The Commission has stressed that the practice of forcibly keeping prisoners in bed is a practice that has fallen a great deal, but that the aim must be to eliminate it.
“Ill-treatment appears to be a punitive reaction to correcting prisoners’ conduct,” the Commission has called for effective measures to combat it, as well as to prevent ill-treatment and ensure its proper investigation.
The report also contains some 20 complaints of ill-treatment received by police officers in police stations, as well as ill-treatment in psychiatric prisons and detention centres for minors.