D. Places of detention 51. Detainees must be held in ‘places officially recognised as places of detention’.492 52. Registers should be kept and be accessible of the names and places of detention and those detainees held there as well as those responsible for those places.493 This register should include, in respect of each prisoner, their identity, the reasons for their detention, the hour of admission and release, the reasons for arrest, the time of the arrest, their first appearance before a court or judicial authority, the identity of the law enforcement officials and precise information about the place of custody.494 53. Under the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances family members are entitled to information on a detained relative including the date, time and place of the detention.495 54. Records should be kept of interrogations.496 E. Safeguards for Particular Categories of Detainees 55. All detained people have the right to equal treatment but particular allowances will also have to be made for certain special categories including women, juveniles, older persons, non-nationals, ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, those who are ill and persons with disabilities. Some groups may need particular protection from abuse from other detainees as well as from those detaining them. Women in detention 56. The UN’s Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners set out basic ground rules for the detention of women. These are:     Women in custody should be supervised by female members of staff; They should also be held in separate institutions or segregated within an institution under the authority of female staff; No male staff should enter the part of the institution set apart for women unaccompanied by a female member of staff; In institutions where women are held in custody, facilities for pre-natal and post-natal care and treatment must be provided; 492 Human Rights Committee, General Comment No.20, 44th Session (1992), para 11. Ibid. See also Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Article 10, Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and summary Executions, Principle 6. 494 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners Rule 7. Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, Principle 12(1). 495 Article 18, ICCPED. 496 Ibid. See also Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, Principle 12. 493 92

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