The Council of Europe sounds the alarm about the migrant camp in Gjadra: Overcrowding, abuse and sedation with psychotropic drugs

An ad hoc visit by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has highlighted serious critical issues in repatriation detention centres, reporting ill-treatment, abuse, poor healthcare and degrading living conditions.

The report raises questions about the entire detention model, including its implementation in external contexts such as Albania.

In April 2024, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), a body of the Council of Europe, carried out an extraordinary visit to Italy, with the aim of examining the conditions in pre-repatriation detention centres (CPR). These centres, which are nothing more than closed structures intended for the temporary detention of foreign nationals awaiting deportation, have been the subject of increasing criticism in recent years.

The CPT visited four of the nine CPRs present in the national territory, subsequently drafting a detailed report which today highlights systematic violations of fundamental rights and highly problematic management.

In the face of such evidence, the CPT also issues a warning at the international level, questioning the validity of the Italian model of immigration detention, particularly in its application in external contexts such as the upcoming CPRs in Albania.

Doubts about the agreement with Albania

The CPT also expresses strong reservations about Italy’s intention to replicate this detention model abroad, particularly in Albania: the bilateral agreements between the two countries in fact provide for the establishment of the CPR on Albanian territory, but the Committee questions the possibility of guaranteeing, in this context, minimum standards of human rights protection, given the already evident failure on Italian soil. However, the guarantees provided by the Italian authorities were not considered sufficient to allay the concerns raised.

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