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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Norway. 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
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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: Norway 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/norway/
[accessed 29 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. Norway should
improve the situation for prisoners in solitary confinement Executive Summary, 17 January 2019 [accessed 1 June
2020] Material conditions
of detention were good at Oslo Police Headquarters and generally acceptable
at Bodø Police Headquarters. In contrast, conditions were clearly
substandard at Bergen Police
Headquarters where many cells were
extremely small (i.e. measuring less than
5 m²) and poorly ventilated. The CPT recommends that the Norwegian
authorities implement as a matter of priority the existing plan to construct
a new police detention facility in Bergen. Norway should
improve the situation for prisoners in solitary confinement Council of Europe
2019 News, 17 January 2019 www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/norway-should-improve-the-situation-for-prisoners-in-solitary-confinement [accessed 17 May
2019] In some of the
prisons visited, the CPT found that a number of prisoners were locked up
alone in their cells for 22 hours per day (the daily out-of-cell activities
being limited to one hour of outdoor exercise taken alone and one hour of
access to a fitness room alone) for prolonged periods with only very limited
contact with staff. The CPT recommends that all prisoners subjected to
“complete exclusion from company” benefit from a structured programme of purposeful and preferably out-of-cell
activities and that they be provided with meaningful human contact on a daily
basis. Furthermore, the Committee once again observed major problems in the
prisons visited in transferring prisoners with severe mental disorders to
psychiatric hospitals and urges the Norwegian authorities to implement their
long-standing plan to construct a regional psychiatric security department in
the Oslo area. Freedom House
Country Report 2018 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/norway/freedom-world/2018 [accessed 18 May
2020] F2. DOES DUE PROCESS
PREVAIL IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL MATTERS? The police are
under civilian control, and human rights abuses by law enforcement
authorities are rare. Batons
and Starlight Tours: Norwegian Police Accused of Breaking Anti-Torture
Conventions Shane Alexander
Caldwell, Vice News, 16 February 2015 news.vice.com/article/batons-and-starlight-tours-norwegian-police-accused-of-breaking-anti-torture-conventions www.circusbazaar.com/norways-badass-batons-starlight-tours/ [accessed 30 March
2015] The report also
criticized the officers' use of a "drive-off," a notorious police
practice euphemistically known as a "starlight tour." While
acknowledging that police are allowed to remove individuals from an area as a
law enforcement tool, it said that the drive-off in question was both
unnecessary and went beyond the boundaries of what was permissible, leaving
the man "quite far outside" the city limits. 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/NOR/CO/5
(2008) www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cat/observations/norway2008.html [accessed 4 March
2013] Education on the
prohibition against torture 11. While noting that
different training programmes for police and prison officers, which cover
human rights and rights of detainees, including the prohibition of torture,
are systematically being held, the Committee regrets that there is no
available information on the impact of the training on reducing incidents of
violence and ill-treatment, including incidents that may be racially
motivated. The State party
should ensure that through educational programmes, law enforcement personnel
and justice officials are fully aware of the provisions of the Convention,
applicable limitations on the use of force and the need to avoid any
discriminatory treatment. Furthermore, the State party should develop and
implement a methodology to assess the effectiveness and impact of relevant training
programmes on the incidence of cases of torture, violence and ill-treatment. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm [accessed 6 February
2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm [accessed 4 July
2019] TORTURE
AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT – The law
prohibits such practices, and there were no reports that government officials
employed them. Freedom House
Country Report - Political Rights: 1 Civil Liberties: 1 Status: Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/norway [accessed 6 February
2013] LONG
URL ç 2009 Country Reports begin on Page 21 [accessed 13 May
2020] The judiciary is
independent, and the court system, headed by the Supreme Court, operates
fairly at the local and national levels. The king appoints judges on the
advice of the Ministry of Justice. The police are under civilian control, and
there were no reports of human rights abuses committed by any domestic law
enforcement authorities in 2008.Prison conditions generally meet
international standards. All
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