21.4.2015

Lillestrøm police custody facility

Role confusion between the accident and emergency unit and the police at Lillestrøm. Both the Lillestrøm police and the local accident and emergency unit regard medical examinations requested by the police as forensic work. 

24.3.2015

Human rights violations do occur in Norway

- Based on what we have seen in 2014, Norway needs a body that has a special mandate to detect and prevent any risk of torture and ill-treatment in places of detention, says Parliamentary Ombudsman Aage Thor Falkanger.

17.3.2015

Ringerike Prison

Ringerike prison should improve its procedures for information sharing. Specifically, the police and the prison must improve their communications regarding prisoners’ mental health and any risk of suicide. This is one of the recommendations from the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s report following his visit to the prison in January of this year. In addition, inmates should be provided with better health services.

2.3.2015

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has issued an opinion on cross-border monitoring

At its plenary meeting in Geneva in February 2015, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) adopted an opinion on cross-border monitoring as guidance for the Norwegian NPM. The opinion concerns how to frame preventive work when one state enters into an agreement with another state with a view to sending inmates to the other state to serve their sentence there.

18.12.2014

Bergen Prison

Read the report's summary and recommendations here.

11.12.2014

Drammen police custody facility

Read the report's summary and recommendations here.

4.12.2014

Tønsberg police custody facility

The Norwegian National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and Ill-Treatment (NPM) has published its report from two visits to Tønsberg police custody facility conducted in October 2014.

27.10.2014

Tromsø Prison

Today, the Norwegian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) published the report from its visit to Tromsø prison on 10-12 September 2014.

19.8.2014

Public consultation meeting on the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and Ill-treatment

On 24 April 2014, the Parliamentary Ombudsman arranged a public consultation meeting on the NPM. The purpose of the meeting was to provide information on the terms of reference and principles on which the work of the NPM would be based, and to invite responses from a broad range of organisations and institutions.

18.8.2014

Article on the OPCAT mandate posted on Norway’s human rights blog (only in Norwegian)

Read the blog post here.