CAT/C/MOZ/CO/1 The State party should increase its efforts to improve the juvenile justice system in accordance with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules). In particular, the State party should ensure that detention pending trial is used for juveniles only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest possible period of time. It should also ensure that sufficient facilities are available so that all juveniles in conflict with the law are held separately from adults. Conditions in psychiatric hospitals 17. While taking into account the information provided during the dialogue about mental health services in Mozambique, the Committee regrets that little information was supplied concerning the conditions and legal safeguards for persons placed in involuntary treatment in psychiatric facilities. In this regard, the Committee is concerned at the delegation’s statement that involuntary admissions in psychiatric hospitals are not statistically recorded (art. 16). The Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to ensure that persons in involuntary treatment have access to complaint mechanisms. The State party should ensure that all cases of forced internment in mental healthcare institutions are properly and duly registered. The Committee requests the State party to provide information on conditions for persons in psychiatric hospitals. Prompt, thorough and impartial investigations 18. The Committee expresses concern at reports of persistent impunity for police officers and prison officials who torture or ill-treat arrested and detained persons. The Committee notes that, according to the information provided by the State party’s delegation, 50 cases of torture reached the sentencing stage during the period under review, with sentences ranging between 6 months’ and 27 years’ imprisonment. Nonetheless, the State party was unable to provide comprehensive and disaggregated data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions in cases of torture and ill-treatment (arts. 2, 11, 12, 13 and 16). The State party should: (a) Take appropriate measures to ensure that all allegations of torture or illtreatment are promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigated, perpetrators are duly prosecuted and, if found guilty, sentenced to penalties that take into account the grave nature of their acts; (b) Ensure that investigations into allegations of torture or ill-treatment are conducted by an independent body that is not under the authority of the police; (c) Establish an independent complaints system for all persons deprived of their liberty; and (d) Unambiguously reaffirm the absolute prohibition of torture, publicly condemn practices of torture and issue a clear warning that anyone committing such acts or otherwise complicit or participating in torture will be held personally responsible before the law for those acts and will be subject to criminal prosecution and appropriate penalties. Deaths in custody 19. The Committee notes that, despite the request it made to the State party’s delegation to provide information on cases of death in custody that had occurred during the period under review, no information has been received on this subject (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The State party should take measures to ensure that all instances of death in custody are promptly investigated and that those found responsible for deaths in custody that 6