SARAJEVO, Jan 7 (Hina) - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Helsinki Committee on Human Rights has pointed to the extremely difficult situation in the country's prisons and called on the authorities to take adequate measures to ensure a
relatively normal functioning of prisons and reformatories. In a report released in Sarajevo on Monday, the Committee says a systematic monitoring of the situation in Bosnia's prisons in 2001 showed the personnel is mainly acquainted with and respects internationally recognised and prescribed standards of treatment of prisoners, and that in said period the prisoners were not treated inhumanely. The financial situation in most prisons, however, was described as extremely poor, which might result in the prisoners remaining without food, the Helsinki Committee fears. The technical equipment of the prisons and the sanitary conditions were also assessed as very poor.
SARAJEVO, Jan 7 (Hina) - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Helsinki
Committee on Human Rights has pointed to the extremely difficult
situation in the country's prisons and called on the authorities to
take adequate measures to ensure a relatively normal functioning of
prisons and reformatories.
In a report released in Sarajevo on Monday, the Committee says a
systematic monitoring of the situation in Bosnia's prisons in 2001
showed the personnel is mainly acquainted with and respects
internationally recognised and prescribed standards of treatment
of prisoners, and that in said period the prisoners were not treated
inhumanely.
The financial situation in most prisons, however, was described as
extremely poor, which might result in the prisoners remaining
without food, the Helsinki Committee fears. The technical
equipment of the prisons and the sanitary conditions were also
assessed as very poor.
The Committee also points to the increased drug abuse in prisons and
the lack of preventive measures.
The Bosnian authorities were urged to immediately secure financing
to prevent the situation from deteriorating further.
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