Anti-torture Committee publishes critical report on police ill-treatment in Serbia and the outdated treatment of remand prisoner

The Serbian authorities must recognise that ill-treatment by the police is an accepted practice, and not the work of a few rogue officers; they must effectively investigate the allegations of ill-treatment and punish the crime, said the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee (CPT) in the report on an ad hoc visit to 16 police stations and prisons in Serbia in May-June 2017 published today, together with the Serbian Government’s comments (see also the Serbian version of the report and of the comments). More...