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have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Netherlands
Antilles. Some of these links may lead
to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even
false. No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to
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ARCHIVES *** High security
prisons in The Netherla Amnesty
International AI, 12 October 2018 -- Index number: EUR 35/9231/2018 www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur35/9231/2018/en/ accessed 9 January
2019] www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/EUR3592312018ENGLISH.pdf accessed 9 January
2019] The Open Society
Justice Initiative and Amnesty International submit this briefing to the
United Nations Committee against Torture ahead of its examination of The
Netherlands’ seventh periodic report on the implementation of the UN
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, at its 65th Session. This submission focuses on concerns over the
implementation of Article 16 of the Convention by The Netherlands at two
special high-security detention units holding people suspected and convicted
of terrorism offences. Concern is also expressed that for some detainees the
security measures exposed them to heightened risks of Article 1 violations. Netherlands
Antilles: Comments by Amnesty International on the Second Periodic Report
submitted to the United Nations Committee against Torture Amnesty
International AI, 31 March 1995 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR12/001/1995/en [accessed 5 Feb
2014] The UN Committee
against Torture (UNCAT) will examine the Second Periodic Report of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands under the Convention against Torture in April
1995. In this report, AI comments on the submission regarding the Netherlands
Antilles and outlines its own concerns about torture and ill-treatment and
deaths in detention. Individual cases are briefly described, namely: Henry K.
Every, who died from some form of crushing injury while in police custody
(1990); Leroy Neil, who died of peritonitis in police custody (1990); Xavier Fluonia, who allegedly hanged himself in a police station
in Curacao (1992); Moreno G Fabias, who has alleged
ill-treatment by arresting officers (1991); Gerardo E Chong, allegedly
ill-treated after arrest (1992); and Cuthbert Athanaze,
who claimed he was ill-treated by police officers in December 1993. Search … AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL For more
articles:: Search Amnesty
International’s website www.amnesty.org/en/search/?q=netherlands+antilles+torture&ref=&year=&lang=en&adv=1&sort=relevance [accessed 9 January 2019] Scroll
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EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119096.htm [accessed 6 February
2013] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119096.htm [accessed 7 July
2019] PRISON
AND DETENTION CENTER CONDITIONS – In the Netherlands Antilles, judges may
sentence juveniles under the age of 16 who have committed serious offenses to
prisons where they serve time together with adults; however, authorities
allocated funding during the year to expand prison capacity to permit such
juvenile offenders to be kept separately. Shortcomings in
detention and prison facilities, particularly overcrowding, persisted in
Curacao and St. Maarten (Netherlands Antilles); however, due to increases in the
capacity of their custodial facilities, overcrowding was no longer a problem
in Aruba and Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles). A pilot project employing house
arrest for selected inmates continued. A shooting, several stabbings, and a
hunger strike took place among inmates of the Bon Futuro
prison on Curacao. Prison guards went on strike once over labor conditions.
On St. Maarten inmates went on strike once over remuneration for prison work
and other grievances. The government reserved 25 million Netherlands Antilles
guilders (approximately $14 million) for the improvement of the Bon Futuro prison and for detention centers on the other
Antillean islands. All
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