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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Iceland. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No
attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of Torture by Authorities are of
particular interest to you. You might
be interested in exploring the moral justification for inflicting pain or
inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment in order to obtain critical
information that may save countless lives, or to elicit a confession for a
criminal act, or to punish someone to teach him a lesson outside of the
courtroom. Perhaps your paper might
focus on some of the methods of torture, like fear, extreme temperatures,
starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, suffocation, or immersion in freezing
water. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the people acting in an official capacity who
perpetrate such cruelty. There is a
lot to the subject of Torture by Authorities.
Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. ***
ARCHIVES *** 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: Iceland U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/iceland/
[accessed 25 July
2021] TORTURE AND OTHER
CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT The constitution
and law prohibit such practices, and there were no reports that government
officials employed them. PRISON AND DETENTION
CENTER CONDITIONS On January 28, the
Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) released
its report on four prisons it inspected in May 2019. The report noted
generally very satisfactory physical conditions but stated that interprisoner violence was a problem at Litla-Hraun Prison and that it was clearly related to the
presence of drugs inside the establishment. The CPT concluded that the
problem of alcohol and drug addiction continued to be one of the major
challenges facing the prison system and drew attention to prisoners’ limited
access to psychiatric care and psychological assistance. The report also
found that remand prisoners on court-ordered isolation at Akureyri
Prison continued to be accommodated in a windowless cell. Council of Europe
anti-torture Committee publishes report on Iceland Executive Summary,
28 January 2020 [accessed 31 May
2020] POLICE
ESTABLISHMENTS
-- The delegation received no allegations –and found no other indications –of
ill-treatment of persons deprived of liberty by the police. The Committee
concludes that, as during its previous visits, persons in police custody in
Iceland run little risk of being ill-treated. Conclusions and
recommendations of the Committee against Torture U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment -- Doc.
CAT/C/ISL/CO/3 (2008) www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cat/observations/iceland2008.html [accessed 1 March 2013] Definition of torture
and criminalization 5. While noting the
explanations provided by the State party in its second and third periodic
reports and in the written replies to the list of issues with regard to the
interpretation of the definition of torture and its use in domestic criminal
legislation, the Committee regrets that no change has taken place with regard
to the State party’s position not to fully incorporate the definition of
torture as defined in article 1 of the Convention, nor to incorporate torture
as a specific crime into domestic criminal legislation (arts. 1 and 4). The Committee
reiterates its previous recommendation, namely that the definition of torture
according to article 1 of the Convention be introduced into Icelandic
criminal legislation in order to ensure that all elements of torture are
included, and that torture be defined as a specific offence in domestic
laws. The Committee also draws the
attention of the State party to its general comment No. 2 on the implementation
of article 2 Solitary confinement 9. The Committee is
concerned about the reported cases of frequent and excessive use of solitary
confinement for persons in custody (art. 11). The State party
should investigate promptly the issue of excessive use of solitary confinement
and adopt effective measures to prevent such practice. Search … AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL For current
articles:: Search Amnesty
International Website www.amnesty.org/en/search/?q=iceland+torture&ref=&year=&lang=en&adv=1&sort=relevance [accessed 2 January 2019] Scroll
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EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119084.htm [accessed 31 January 2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119084.htm [accessed 7 July 2019] TORTURE
AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – The constitution
and law prohibit such practices, and there were no reports that government
officials employed them. Council of Europe
anti-torture Committee publishes report on Iceland Strasbourg, 5 December 2013 --
[Report URL www.cpt.coe.int/documents/isl/2013-12-05-eng.htm ] www.cpt.coe.int/documents/isl/2013-12-05-eng.htm [accessed 23 Jan 2014] www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/council-of-europe-anti-torture-committ-1 [accessed 27 July 2017] Most of the persons
with recent experience of police custody who were interviewed by the CPT’s delegation
stated that they had been treated in a correct manner. The conclusion reached
by the Committee after its previous visits – namely that persons detained by
the police in Iceland run little risk of being ill-treated – remains valid.
As for conditions of detention in the police establishments visited, they
were generally adequate. As regards prisons,
the CPT received hardly any allegations of deliberate physical ill-treatment
of prisoners by staff. That said, the Committee highlights
in its report a number of principles and minimum standards which should be
complied with on those rare occasions when means of restraint have to be
applied to a prisoner. All
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