CAT/C/TCD/CO/1 page 4 The State party should revise the Chadian Code of Criminal Procedure to include fundamental legal guarantees for all suspects during detention, including, in particular, the right of access to a lawyer, the right to be examined by an independent physician, the right to contact a relative or friend and the right to be informed of one’s rights from the moment of detention, including the right to be informed of the charges and to be brought promptly before a judge. The State party should also guarantee the full enjoyment of these rights in practice, and should ensure that the limit on the period of custody is strictly applied, and that access to legal aid is available for the poorest. In addition, the authorities should systematically and regularly update detention registers, which should contain the name of every detainee, the identity of the officials carrying out the detention, the date of the detainee’s admission and departure, and all other information needed for such registers. Widespread use of torture and ill-treatment, especially during military operations 17. The Committee is deeply concerned about: (a) Persistent and consistent reports of torture and ill-treatment allegedly carried out by the State party’s security forces and services, especially in district police stations, gendarmeries and remand centres, and the apparent impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of such acts; (b) Allegations that the newly formed environmental protection brigades and the brigade responsible for searching for weapons indulge in acts that contravene the Convention; (c) The conclusions of the commission of inquiry into the events of February 2008, and conclusions drawn from other sources, which report summary and extrajudicial executions, rapes, kidnappings followed by enforced disappearance, torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, arbitrary arrests, intimidation and harassment of political opponents, human rights defenders and civilians. The Committee is particularly concerned about the fate of Mr. Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh, a political opponent and former minister who was arrested on 3 February 2008 and who has since disappeared; (d) Reports that torture and ill-treatment are commonly used on prisoners of war and political opponents (arts. 2 and 12). The State party should: (a) Take immediate steps to guarantee in practice that all allegations of torture and ill-treatment are the subject of a thorough, prompt and impartial investigation and that the perpetrators of such acts are brought to trial and, if found guilty, sentenced to penalties proportional to the seriousness of the acts committed; (b) Investigate the involvement of government agents, members of the armed forces and government security forces and allies of the Government in acts of torture, rape, enforced disappearance and other abuses committed during the events of February 2008;