Anti-torture committee on Montenegro: Despite some progress, ill-treatment remains a problem and must be addressed

In prisons, too, allegations of ill-treatment persist; the practices of fixation of inmates and locking up remand prisoners in their cells for 23 hours a day for months and years continue and must be stopped. In psychiatric hospitals visited, despite the generally positive atmosphere, chronic overcrowding and prolonged prescription of benzodiazepines to patients was observed. More...