Portugal: "Small problems..."? A summary of concerns

Index Number: EUR 38/002/2001
Date Published: 30 July 2001
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Portugal

This report summarizes, comments upon and updates the organization's concerns about Portugal to the end of 2000. These include: continuing reports of ill-treatment and excessive use of force by police, deaths in police custody, numerous reports of cruel, inhuman or degrading conditions in prison establishments, and reports of violence by custodial staff.