Geneva, Apr 29 (Notimex) .- The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) criticized the government of Spain for the impunity that exists towards the perpetrators of this crime, who mostly belong to the police .
CAT experts also questioned by Madrid incommunicado detention and the situation of Spanish prisons and the Centers for Temporary Stay Immigrants (CETI) in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa.
The CAT analyzed for two days at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the implementation by Spain of the Convention against Torture.
The 10 experts who form the team criticized the Spanish government for not providing concrete data and figures on torture, investigations into such crimes, convicted persons and compensation to victims.
One of the members of the CAT, Jens Modvig, protested to the Spanish delegation for not answering your question about what happened to the 300 cases of alleged torture reported in the past four years, how many were investigated, how many people were punished and how many are compensated.
For his part, President of CAT, the Chilean Claudio Grossman, expressed concern about the repeated use of pardons in cases of torture in the Iberian country.
Grossman recalled the pardon granted by the government five elements of Autonomous Police (Catalan autonomous police), three of whom were convicted of torture perpetrated against Lucian Padurau in 2008.
He asserted those pardons are incompatible with the United Nations Convention Against Torture and stated that “not a single policeman in prison for torturing”.
Similarly, Grossman and the rapporteur of the committee responsible for monitoring the situation in Spain, Senegalese Abdoulaye Gaye, questioned the government on the mechanisms of redress or compensation for victims of torture and asked whether “there is someone in jail for the crime of torture in Spain “.
Another of the issues discussed at the meeting is that of incommunicado detention against suspected terrorists.
The Committee inquired about the measures implementing the Spanish state in order to review and abolish this regime, since the guarantees of fundamental rights of the detainees are not insured.
The expert Satyabhoosun Gupt Domah delegation asked what were the reasons of solitary confinement and he noted that “no other alternative” to those measures of detention.
Grossman asked the Spanish government whether they had approved changes in its legislative framework to prohibit the use of incommunicado under age.
The Committee expressed its concern about the situation in prisons in Spain and in the CETI in the Spanish enclaves in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla.
The Italian expert Alessio Bruni and Abdoulaye Gaye said the penitential centers and reception facilities for migrants are overcrowded.
On October 15, 2014, it was also reported beatings in the shelters by agents of the Guard Civil denounced Gaye.
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