I Implementation of THE Duties and Powers Of The National Preventive Mechanism in 2012 ...............................7 1. Introduction .................................................................................................... 7 2. Visits to prisons, a juvenile prison and a youth detention centre ................. 15 3. Visits to police stations ................................................................................ 31 4. Visits to psychiatric hospitals ....................................................................... 55 5. Visits to special social care institutions ........................................................ 71 6. Visits to social care institutions (nursing homes) ........................................ 77 7. Visit to the Asylum Centre and the Aliens Centre ...................................... 101 8. Visits to institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders ................................................. 117 9. Visit to the 17th Military Police Battalion of the Slovenian Armed Forces .....127 II Review of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) activities in 2012 ........................................................................137 III UN DOCUMENTS ........................................................................... 155 1. UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment .......................................................................... 155 2. Act of ratification of the optional protocol to the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment .............. 177 3. Provisional statement on the role of judicial review and due process in the prevention of torture in prisons .................................... 203 Summary. .............................................................................................. 205 I. Introduction............................................................................................ 205 II. Lack of institutional protection.................................................................. 205 III. Due process........................................................................................... 207 IV. Judicial review........................................................................................ 209 V. Recommendation. .................................................................................. 211

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