Committee members who visited Ireland

Five members of the committee visited Ireland from August 31st to September 9th, 1998. It was the committee's second periodic visit to Ireland. The members who visited were:

Mr Ivan Zakine (France), president of the committee and president of the Societe Generale des Prisons et de Legislation Criminelle;

Mr Pieter Stoffelen (Netherlands), lawyer and chairman of the Complaints Committee of the Police Force in the Flevoland region of Holland;

Mr Jon Bjarman (Iceland), former prison chaplain of the National Church of Iceland;

Mr Demetrios Stylianides (Cyprus), lawyer and former president of the Supreme Court of Cyprus;

Ms Pirkko Lahti (Finland), psychologist and director of the Finnish Association for Mental Health.