CAT/C/59/D/606/2014 13.9 With regard to the complaint under article 16 of the Convention, the Committee has taken note of the complainant’s claim that the various forms of abuse to which he was subjected in the course of the judicial proceedings, including the deplorable sanitary conditions in which he was detained during his initial months in Salé prison in Rabat, amount to inhuman and degrading treatment. The Committee also takes note of the allegations that the complainant spent the night handcuffed to a large door with iron bars, that he was kicked and verbally abused by guards whenever he attempted to change position, and that access to a doctor, his lawyer and his wife was restricted for several weeks. The complainant also claims to have been placed in solitary confinement for four months as of 18 November 2010, to have been kept in a cell for three months, to have been denied out-of-cell exercise, and to have been unable to communicate with other detainees other than through the window. In the absence of any relevant information from the State party in this regard, the Committee concludes that the facts reveal a violation by the State party of its obligations under article 16 of the Convention. 24 14. The Committee, acting under article 22 (7) of the Convention, decides that the facts before it reveal a violation by the State party of articles 1 and 12 to 16 of the Convention. 15. Pursuant to rule 118 (5) of its rules of procedure, the Committee urges the State party to: (a) provide the complainant with fair and adequate compensation, including the means for the fullest rehabilitation possible; (b) initiate a thorough and impartial investigation into the incidents in question, in full conformity with the guidelines of the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul Protocol), with a view to bringing those responsible for the victim’s treatment to justice; (c) refrain from any form of pressure, intimidation or reprisals likely to harm the physical and moral integrity of the complainant and his family, which would otherwise constitute a violation of the State party’s obligations under the Convention to cooperate with the Committee in good faith in the implementation of the provisions of the Convention, and to enable the complainant to receive visits from his family in prison; and (d) to inform it, within 180 days from the date of transmittal of this decision, of the steps it has taken in response to the views expressed above. 24 GE.17-06158 See Niyonzima v. Burundi, para. 8.8. 15