Twenty people in the country’s jails have been sitting there for more than a year. Four of these, according to Correctional been locked in more than 1 000 days, reports the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Both the Council of Europe and the UN Committee against Torture has previously criticized long detention periods with restrictions, and it is only Sweden and three other EU ies that has no maximum time they can be held in custody.
In early November should UN Committee against Torture have a meeting where, as stated in an email from the Committee to SvD, possibly renewed criticism of the detention of all time will be discussed.
The person who hitherto longest is a now 24-year-old man on suspicion of accessory to murder, which has been in jail in 1427 days.
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