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Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg: Excessive use of pre-trial detention runs against human rights

01 August 2011

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Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg: Excessive use of pre-trial detention runs against human rights (pdf):

"Twenty-five per cent of the individuals kept in prison in Europe today are in pretrial detention, “detained on remand”. They have not been tried at all or are waiting for the review of an earlier sentence. As their guilt is not established, they are in principle to be regarded as innocent."

See also: Recommendation Rec(2006)13 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the use of remand in custody, the conditions in which it takes place and the provision of safeguards against abuse (pdf) and European Commission: A Green Paper on the application of EU criminal justice legislation in the field of detention (pdf)

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