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Report to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Visit To CPT/Inf (2004) 40 Report to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 27 April to 9 May 2003 The Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has requested the publication of this report and of its response. The Government's response is set out in document CPT/Inf (2004) 41. Strasbourg, 21 December 2004 - 3 - CONTENTS Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report............................................................................5 PREFACE ...........................................................................................................................................7 I. INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................9 A. Dates of the visit and composition of the delegation ..............................................................9 B. Establishments visited.............................................................................................................10 C. Context of the visit ..................................................................................................................11 D. Cooperation between the CPT and the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina...............12 E. Immediate observations under Article 8, paragraph 5, of the Convention .......................13 II. FACTS FOUND DURING THE VISIT AND ACTION PROPOSED ..............................14 A. Police establishments ..............................................................................................................14 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................14 2. Torture and other forms of ill-treatment..........................................................................16 3. Safeguards against the ill-treatment of persons deprived of their liberty........................19 4. Conditions of detention ...................................................................................................22 B. Prisons ......................................................................................................................................23 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................23 2. Ill-treatment .....................................................................................................................25 3. Staffing and management issues......................................................................................31 4. Material conditions ..........................................................................................................32 5. Regime.............................................................................................................................35 6. Health care services .........................................................................................................37 7. Zenica Prison Forensic Psychiatric Annexe ....................................................................40 8. Contact with the outside world........................................................................................44 9. Issues relating to juveniles...............................................................................................46 10. Discipline, segregation, and means of restraint...............................................................47 11. Complaints and inspection procedures ............................................................................49 - 4 - C. Psychiatric establishments .....................................................................................................51 1. Preliminary remarks ........................................................................................................51 2. Ill-treatment .....................................................................................................................52 3. Patient’s living conditions ...............................................................................................54 a. Sokolac Psychiatric Hospital..................................................................................54 b. Jakeš Institution......................................................................................................56 4. Treatment and care ..........................................................................................................57 a. introduction ............................................................................................................57 b. Sokolac Psychiatric Hospital..................................................................................57 c. Jakeš Institution......................................................................................................59 5. Staff issues.......................................................................................................................59 6. Means of restraint/isolation .............................................................................................61 7. Safeguards .......................................................................................................................63 III. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSIONS ......................................................................65 APPENDIX I: LIST OF THE CPT'S RECOMMENDATIONS, COMMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION.......................................................................................................................71 APPENDIX II: LIST OF THE NATIONAL AUTHORITIES AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS WITH WHICH THE CPT’S DELEGATION HELD CONSULTATIONS..................................................................................................................86 - 5 - Copy of the letter transmitting the CPT’s report Strasbourg, 5 December 2003 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 have the honour to enclose herewith the report to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina drawn up by the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) following its visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 April to 9 May 2003. The report was adopted by the CPT at its 52nd meeting, held from 3 to 7 November 2003. I would like to draw your attention in particular to paragraph 183 of the report, in which the CPT requests the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina to provide an interim and a follow-up response on the action taken upon its report; further, paragraph 184 sets out the Committee's requests in respect of two specific issues. The CPT would ask, in the event of the responses being forwarded in one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that they be accompanied by an English or French translation. It would also be most helpful if the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina could provide a copy of the responses in a computer-readable form. I am at your entire disposal if you have any questions concerning either the CPT’s report or the future procedure. Yours sincerely, Silvia CASALE President of the European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Mr Igor GAON Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Council of Europe Room 1523 - Palais de l'Europe Strasbourg - 7 - PREFACE The European Committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has deemed it appropriate to begin the first of its reports to each State by setting out some of the Committee’s salient features. This should prove particularly helpful in differentiating the basis and aims of the CPT from those of another Council of Europe supervisory body within the field of human rights, the European Court of Human Rights. Unlike the Court, the CPT is not a judicial body empowered to settle legal disputes concerning alleged violations of treaty obligations (i.e., to determine claims ex post facto). The CPT is first and foremost a mechanism designed to prevent ill-treatment from occurring, although it may also in special cases intervene after the event. Consequently, whereas the Court’s activities aim at “conflict solution” on the legal level, the CPT’s activities aim at “conflict avoidance” on the practical level. This being so, the guiding maxim for the CPT when performing its obligations must be to “extend the widest possible protection against abuses, whether physical or mental” (quotation from the 1979 UN Code of conduct for law enforcement officials as well as from the 1988 Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons Under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, both adopted by the General Assembly). The CPT’s activities are based on the concept of co-operation (Article 3 of the European Convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment). The CPT’s task is not to publicly criticise States, but rather to assist them in finding ways to strengthen the “cordon sanitaire” that separates acceptable and unacceptable treatment or behaviour. In fulfilling this task the CPT is guided by the following three principles: i) that the prohibition of ill-treatment of persons deprived of their liberty is absolute,
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