France: Letter to the Minister of Justice

Index Number: EUR 21/002/2002
Date Published: 2 December 2002
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, France

In this letter from Amnesty International's Secretary General to the Minister of Justice, Amnesty International addresses such issues as the prolonged isolation of some convicted prisoners and the detrimental effects to health of such isolation or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; as well as the length of provisional (or pre-trial) detention.