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European Parliament: MEPs launch bipartisan petition to enforce better standards for prisons and detainees' rights across the EU

01 February 2011

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European Parliament: MEPs launch bipartisan petition to enforce better standards for prisons and detainees' rights across the EU (pdf): MEPs Stavros Lambrinidis (S&D, Greece), Françoise Castex (S&D, France), Jan Phillip Albrecht (Greens, Germany), Carlos Coelho (EPP, Portugal) and Diana Wallis (ALDE, UK):

"MEPs from across the political board will be launching an EU-wide campaign asking the European Commission to ensure fundamental rights of detainees are respected in all Member States and to set up minimum common standards of detention in the EU. The initiative comes in view of the European Commission's plans to present a Green Paper on detention, in spring 2011."

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