Deprivation of liberty and Human Rights. The torture and other forms of institutional violence in the Spanish State

Researchers:M.A.Acosta, J.Arzuaga, S.Cabezas, F.Cano (coord.), D.Fernández, R.Gascón, N.Laíno, I. Ortuño, V.Picco, I.Rivera Beiras (coord.), G.Saldubehere, G.Ubasart, J.Velilla.

Colaborators: M.Álvarez, J.del Cura, P.Faraldo Cabana, J.M.García-Borés, I. Muñagorri, G.Portilla, L.Rodríguez, I.Valeije, M.Zapico, Coordinadora para la Prevención de la Tortura del Estado español, Comité Europeo para la Prevención de la Tortura, Organización Mundial contra la Tortura.

Period: 2006-2007
Funding: OPSHR and CHALLENGE Project

Summary: the research aspires to know the effective respect of human rights and prevention and punishment mechanisms for torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Firstly, we try to show a series of indicators of the situations under analysis and, secondly, to make some Recommendations in order to implement formulas, public policies and mechanisms for the effective prevention and punishment of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments in segregation institutions of the Spanish State.
 

Publication: Privación de libertad y derechos humanos. La tortura y otras formas de violencia institucional en el Estado español, OPSHR and Icaria Editorial, Barcelona 2008.
ISBN: 978-84-7426-964-2
 

Contents: Prefaces (E. Sottas, L. Ferrajoli). I) Internacional juridical-political context. II) Juridical universalism and the place of torture. III) Torture and other forms of institucional violence while deprivation of liberty. IV) Conclusions and demands. Bibliography, press sources, web site.