The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has called on states to protect detained persons against intimidation and reprisals. In its recently published annual report, the CPT recalls that it has identified a number of cases in which persons it had interviewed had been intimidated or subjected to various forms of reprisals by public officials (solitary confinement for fabricated disciplinary or security reasons, placement in worse detention conditions, etc.). The CPT has reported such cases in various countries, including Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain.