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A delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit to Hungary from 25 March to 1 April 2025.
The purpose of the visit was to examine the treatment and detention conditions of persons held in prison. To this end, the CPT delegation visited Tiszalök and Szombathely National Prisons. Particular attention was paid to the measures taken by the authorities to implement recommendations made by the Committee after its previous visit carried out in 2023.
In the course of the visit, the delegation held consultations with Sándor Pintér, Minister of the Interior, Zoltán Bolcsik, Secretary of State for Law Enforcement, Mátyás Hegyaljai, Deputy Secretary of State for the European Union and International Affairs, Tamás Tóth, Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service, and other senior officials from the Ministry of the Interior and the Prison Service.
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary findings to the Hungarian authorities.
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