Written Statement·Commons·Ministry of Justice·HCWS766
Eleventh Annual Report of the UK’s National Preventive Mechanism
4 February 2021
Statement
The United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), which the UK ratified in December 2003, requires States Parties to establish a “National Preventive Mechanism” (N...