Introduction, Elna Søndergaard, Senior Legal Adviser, DIGNITY – 00:00
Welcome, Karin Verland, Director-General, DIGNITY – 02:06
Panel 1 International Legal Standards
Introduction, Therese Maria Rytter, Director of the Legal Department, DIGNITY and Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) (Moderator) – 19:03
Sir Malcolm Evans, Chair of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT), and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol on ‘The evolving international legal framework governing the use of solitary confinement as a disciplinary sanction and the jurisprudence of the SPT’ – 27:55
James McManus, Member of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), and former Professor of Criminal Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University on ‘The CPT and Solitary Confinement as a Disciplinary Sanction’ – 51:30
Stephanie Selg, Advisor on Torture Prevention at the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) on ‘Regulation of Solitary Confinement as a Disciplinary Measure in the Mandela Rules’ – 1:09:22
Question and Answer – 1:29:07
