Rapport du Comité anti-torture du Conseil de l'Europe concernant la Fédération de Russie

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Rapport du Comité anti-torture du Conseil de l'Europe concernant la Fédération de Russie

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• CPT
• Torture
• UE
• Rapport
• Comité

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• Publié par: Fil_actu
• Publié le: 18 décembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 53
• Langue: English
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CPT/Inf (2013) 41







Report

to the Russian Government
on the visit to the Russian Federation
carried out by the European Committee
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)

from 21 May to 4 June 2012












The Russian Government has requested the publication of this report and
of its response. The Government’s response is set out in document
CPT/Inf (2013) 42.



Strasbourg, 17 December 2013


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CONTENTS

Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT's report............................................................................ 5
I. INTRODUCTION .................................................... 7
A. Dates of the visit and composition of the delegation .............................................................. 7
B. Establishments visited .............................................................................................................. 8
C. Consultations held by the delegation and co-operation received ......... 9
D. Urgent action requested ......................................................................................................... 12
E. Monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty ..... 13
II. FACTS FOUND DURING THE VISIT AND ACTION PROPOSED .............................. 15
A. Persons held by the police or other law enforcement agencies ........................................... 15
1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................ 15
2. Torture and other forms of ill-treatment ......... 17
3. Safeguards against ill-treatment ...................................................................................... 22
4. Conditions of detention ................................... 27
a. cells at police divisions .......................... 27
b. temporary detention isolators (IVS) ...................................... 28
c. other Internal Affairs establishments ..................................... 30
B. Persons in pre-trial detention or serving sentences ............................................................. 33
1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................ 33
2. Ill-treatment ..................................................... 36
3. Remand prisoners ............ 41
a. material conditions................................................................................................. 42
b. outdoor exercise ..... 45
c. out-of-cell activities and contact with the outside world ....... 45
4. Sentenced prisoners subjected to a closed-type prison (tyurma) regime
– visit to Closed-Type Prison No. 2 in Vladimir (“Vladimirskiy Tsentral”) .................. 46
5. Prisoners serving sentences under a strict colony regime
– follow-up visit to Strict-Regime Correctional Colony No. 1 in Yagul ........................ 48
6. Sentenced prisoners assigned to pre-trial establishments or closed-type prisons
under Section 77 of the Criminal Executive Code .......................................................... 50
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7. Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment ....................................................................... 51
8. Health-care services ........................................ 53
a. introduction ............ 53
b. staff and facilities ................................................................... 54
c. medical examination on admission ........ 57
d. transmissible diseases ............................................................ 59
e. psychiatric and psychological care ........................................................................ 60
f. medical records and confidentiality ....... 62
9. Other issues ..................................................................................................................... 63
a. staffing issues......... 63
b. discipline and segregation...................... 64
c. security arrangements ............................................................................................ 69
d. videosurveillance ................................... 70
e. prisoners at risk of self-harm/suicide ..... 70
f. complaints .............................................................................................................. 71
APPENDIX I: List of the CPT’s recommendations, comments and
requests for information .................. 73
APPENDIX II: List of authorities and organisations
with which the CPT’s delegation held consultations ........................................ 95



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Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT's report


Mr Alexander ALEKSEEV
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary
Permanent Representative of the
Russian Federation
to the Council of Europe
75, allée de la Robertsau
F - 67000 STRASBOURG

Strasbourg, 3 December 2012

Dear Ambassador

In pursuance of Article 10, paragraph 1, of the European Convention for the Prevention of
Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, I enclose herewith the report to the
Russian Government drawn up by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) after its visit to the Russian Federation from
th21 May to 4 June 2012. The report was adopted by the CPT at its 79 meeting, held from 5 to
9 November 2012.

The various recommendations, comments and requests for information formulated by the CPT
are listed in Appendix I. As regards more particularly the recommendations set out in paragraphs 28,
33 to 37, 39 to 44, 72, 76, 79 and 91, and having regard to Article 10 of the Convention, the
Committee requests the Russian authorities to provide within three months information on plans
made for their implementation. Further, the CPT requests the Russian authorities to provide within
six months a response giving a full account of action taken to implement all of the recommendations
listed in Appendix I.

The CPT trusts that it will also be possible for the Russian authorities to provide, in the above-
mentioned six-month response, reactions to the comments formulated in this report as well as replies
to the requests for information made. As regards more specifically the request for information made
in paragraph 129, the CPT has requested the Russian authorities to reply within three months.

The CPT would ask, in the event of the responses being forwarded in the Russian language,
that they be accompanied by an English or French translation.

I am at your entire disposal if you have any questions concerning either the CPT's visit report
or the future procedure.

Yours sincerely


Lətif Hüseynov
President of the European Committee for
the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

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I. INTRODUCTION


A. Dates of the visit and composition of the delegation


1. In pursuance of Article 7 of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”), a
delegation of the CPT visited the Russian Federation from 21 May to 4 June 2012. The visit formed
part of the Committee's programme of periodic visits for 2012, and was the CPT’s sixth periodic
1visit to the Russian Federation.


2. The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT:

- Lətif HÜSEYNOV, President of the CPT (Head of Delegation)

- Djordje ALEMPIJEVIĆ

- Marija DEFINIS-GOJANOVIĆ

- Marzena KSEL

- James McMANUS

- Nadia POLNAREVA

who were supported by the following members of the CPT’s Secretariat:

- Johan FRIESTEDT

- Borys WÓDZ, Head of Division.

They were assisted by:

- Michael KELLETT, former Detective Chief Inspector in the Lancashire
Constabulary, United Kingdom (expert)

- Galina ERMAKOVA (interpreter)

- Stanislav KULD (interpreter)

- Nikolay NADTOCHIY (interpreter)

- Leonid VEKSHIN (interpreter)

- Dmitry ZAITSEV (interpreter).

1 The first periodic visit took place in September 1999, the second in September/October 2000, the third in
December 2001, the fourth in June 2005 and the fifth in September/October 2008. To date, only the report on
the third periodic visit, as well as the response of the Russian Government, have been made public at the
request of the Russian authorities (see documents CPT/Inf (2003) 30 and CPT/Inf (2003) 31).
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B. Establishments visited


3. The delegation visited the following places of deprivation of liberty:

Police establishments

Moscow Region

- Babushkinskiy District Police Division, North-Eastern Administrative District