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Government blocks torture committee appointment (1)

01 January 1991

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Government blocks torture committee appointment
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The government has blocked the appointment of a criminologist,
Silvia Casale, to the European Committee against Torture, a
Council of Europe body set up to uphold human rights in prisons
and police stations in the 26 signatory countries of the European
Convention on the Prevention of Torture and Degrading Treatment.
It has rejected Ms Casale's appointment by the Home office on the
ground that `we need to reward a Conservative party loyalist with
the job', and will put forward a list of suitable candidates
drawn up by Conservative central Office. Britain's last
appointment to the committee, now retiring, has proved something
of an embarrassment with his forthright support for the death
penalty and corporal punishment.
Guardian 7.5.93.

Statewatch vol 3 no 3 May-June 1993

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