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European Committee For The Prevention Of Torture

Volume 225: debated on Thursday 27 May 1993

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Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the European countries visited in each of the last three years by the European committee for the prevention of torture.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The European committee for the prevention of torture (CPT) has visited the following countries in the last three years:

  • 1990: Austria, Denmark, Malta, Turkey, United Kingdom.
  • 1991: France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey.
  • 1992: Cyprus, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Turkey.
  • 1993: Luxembourg, Greece, Liechtenstein.
The CPT plans to visit Belgium, Iceland, Ireland and Norway by the end of the year. The CPT will then have visited all the states party to the convention.