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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 a periodic visit Montenegro from 19 -27 November 2025.
The main objective of the visit was to examined the treatment and conditions of detention of persons deprived of their liberty in various places of detention. To this end, it visited several prisons, juvenile detention and educational-correctional establishments, psychiatric facilities and social welfare establishments, as well as two police stations. The visit was also an opportunity to review the measures taken by the Montenegrin authorities to implement the Committee’s recommendations made after its previous visits in 2017 and 2022.
During the visit, the delegation held consultations with Bojan Božović, Minister of Justice, Damir Gutić, Minister of Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography, and Mirjana Drašković-Andrijašević, State Secretary of the Ministry of Health.
It also met with Stevan Brajušković, Director General for Enforcement and Oversight of Criminal Sanctions, Darko Vukčević, Director of the Institution for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS), Sabina Muratović, Acting Director General of the Directorate for Social Insurance, as well as with senior officials from the UIKS, and the Ministries of Justice, Health, and Social Welfare, Family Care and Demography.
Meetings were also held with Mirjana Radović, Deputy Ombudsman, representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) and members of civil society. In addition, the delegation met senior officials from the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro and DG-JUST (European Commission).
At the end of the visit, the delegation presented its preliminary findings to the Montenegrin authorities.
The visit was carried out by the following members of the CPT: Victor Zaharia (Head of delegation), Slavica Dimitrievska, Eleana Fitidou, Gautam Gulati, Ömer Müslümanoglu, Slava Novak, and Marica Pirošikova. They were supported by Francesca Gordon and Christian Loda, Advisors from the CPT Secretariat, and provided with expert assistance by two medical doctors: Kate Wood (UK), and Dino Vukanović (Italy).
The delegation visited the following establishments:
Prison establishments
- Podgorica Remand Prison in Spuž
- Prison for Long Sentences in Spuž
- Prison for Short Sentences in Spuž
- Bjelo Polje Prison (remand, closed and semi-open units)
Police
- Podgorica headquarters Police Station
- Kotor Police Station
Psychiatric establishments
- Nikšić General Hospital, Psychiatric Ward
- Dobrota Special Psychiatric Hospital
Social welfare establishments
- Children’s Home Mladost in Bjela
- Ljubović Centre
- Komanski Most Institution
