The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights has published the report ‘Prohibition of Ill-treatment and Rights of Persons Deprived of their Liberty in Serbia’. This report is the second in the series produced within the scope of the project ‘Suppressing and Punishing Torture – From Adopting Legal Standards to Improving Practice’ which the Centre is implementing with the support of the EU and the Open Society Institute since 2009. The goal of this project is to facilitate the suppression and punishment of torture and other forms of inhuman or degrading treatment through the continued monitoring of the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and by promoting legal regulation and state practice in suppressing and punishing torture and inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment.
‘Prohibition of Ill-treatment and Rights of Persons Deprived of their Liberty in Serbia’ report consists of three parts. The first contains a brief overview of the criminal law relevant to the punishment of torture and a brief depiction of the available jurisprudence which follows this legislation. The second part contains general observations on the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in penal institutions. The final part contains individual reports on the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in ten institutions, which the Centre visited in the previous year.
The Serbian version of the report can be downloaded here.
