CAT/C/AZE/CO/4 35. The State party should take all measures necessary to ensure that individuals who may face a risk of torture in their countries of origin are not returned, extradited or deported to those countries. The State party should ensure that persons whose applications for asylum have been rejected can lodge an effective appeal with suspensive effect. The State party should compile and provide the Committee with detailed statistical data, disaggregated by country of origin, on the number of persons who have requested asylum or refugee status, and the outcomes of those applications, as well as the number of expulsions, deportations or extraditions that have taken place and the countries to which individuals were returned. Training 36. The Committee welcomes the information from the State party on the training on human rights and prohibition of ill-treatment introduced for prison staff and police officers at temporary detention facilities and the seminars organized by the Central Medical Authority of the Ministry of Justice for medical staff of correctional institutes on the topic of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Committee, however, regrets the limited information available on monitoring and evaluation of these training programmes and the lack of information available on the impact of the training conducted for all relevant officials, including law enforcement officials, prison staff and border guards (art. 10). 37. The State party should further develop educational programmes to ensure that all officials, including law enforcement officials, prison staff and border guards, are fully aware of the provisions of the Convention, that breaches will not be tolerated and will be investigated and that offenders will be prosecuted. All relevant medical personnel should receive specific training on how to identify signs of torture and illtreatment. The Committee recommends that the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Protocol) become an integral part of the training provided to all personnel involved in the detention or imprisonment of persons, as well as to all personnel involved in the investigation and documentation of torture. Furthermore, the State party should develop and implement a methodology to assess the effectiveness and impact of such training and educational programmes on the reduction of cases of torture, violence and ill-treatment. Redress for victims of torture 38. The Committee is concerned that, according to the information from the State party, it has not awarded or provided any redress or rehabilitation to victims of torture during the reporting period, despite legal provisions providing for victims’ rights to material and moral rehabilitation (art. 14). 39. The State party should ensure that victims of torture obtain redress and rehabilitation and have an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including the means for as full a rehabilitation as possible. The Committee draws the attention of the State party to general comment No. 3 (2012) on the implementation of article 14 of the Convention, in which the Committee explains the content and scope of the obligations of States parties to provide full redress to victims of torture and recommends amending the domestic legislation accordingly. Follow-up procedure 40. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 9 December 2016, information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations related to the eradication of widespread torture and ill-treatment, the eradication of arbitrary 8

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