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LIST OF THE CPT’S RECOMMENDATIONS,
COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
A.
Law enforcement agencies
Ill-treatment
recommendations
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all law enforcement officials, including Coast Guard officers, to be vigorously reminded in an
appropriate manner and at regular intervals, that the ill-treatment of detained persons is not
acceptable and that such conduct will be severely sanctioned; in this context, the attention of
law enforcement officials to be drawn to the provisions of Articles 137A, 137B and 137C of
the Criminal Code, dealing with torture and ill-treatment by state agents (paragraph 16);
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the Greek authorities to seek to integrate human rights concepts into practical professional
training for high-risk situations, such as the arrest and questioning of suspects
(paragraph 17);
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whenever criminal suspects brought before a prosecutor or judge allege ill-treatment by law
enforcement officials, the prosecutor/judge to record the allegations in writing, order
immediately a forensic medical examination and take the necessary steps to ensure that the
allegations are properly investigated; such an approach to be followed whether or not the
person concerned bears visible external injuries; even in the absence of an express allegation
of ill-treatment, the prosecutor/judge to request a forensic medical examination whenever
there are other grounds to believe that a person brought before the prosecutor/judge could
have been the victim of ill-treatment (paragraph 19);
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appropriate steps to be taken to ensure that persons who may have been victims of illtreatment by law enforcement officials are not dissuaded from lodging a formal complaint
(paragraph 19);
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persons who are taken into police custody and subsequently released without being brought
before a public prosecutor or judge to be able themselves to solicit a medical
examination/certificate from a forensic institute (paragraph 20);
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a system of regular visits to law enforcement agency establishments by an independent
authority to be established, having regard to the remarks in paragraph 22 (paragraph 22).
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