Detention regime in Spain makes Spanish custody law system one of the strictest in Europe and breaches Madrid's agreements on human rights' international standards, Amnesty International says. The human rights organization has released a report calling Spain to end detention law.

AI's Europe and Central Asia Programme Director, Nicola Ducworth, has said that "it is inadmissible that in present day Spain anyone who is arrested for whatever reason should disappear as if in a black hole for days on end". She further added that such practices lead to a lack of transparency that "can be used as a veil to hide human rights violations".

Amnesty assures that such regime could "itself amount to a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment", and therefore it is not up to international standards.

Among other reasons, Amnesty International calls for the Spanish government to end the incommunicado regime; allow any detainee to contact their own lawyer, not an appointed one, and to speak to him without police presence; let the detainees to be examined by their own doctor, and to have their families informed about their detention.

Further information:

• AI: Spain must end incommunicado detention
• ELPAIS.com: Amnistía denuncia el régimen de incomunicación de los detenidos en España
• Público.es: AI denuncia la incomunicación de los detenidos en España
• BBC: Spain urged to end detention law