A/HRC/34/54/Add.1 (h) Ensure the daily presence of truly independent and qualified medical health staff, including psychiatric and dental specialists, in all places of deprivation of liberty, in cooperation with the public health services, to perform medical entrance exams and regular check-ups for all detainees and to provide medical assistance as necessary; (i) Regulate and improve the quantity and quality of food and water and ensure adequate sanitary and hygienic conditions, ventilation and access to exercise, sunlight and recreational activities; (j) Introduce independent, effective and accessible complaints mechanisms in all places of deprivation of liberty by installing telephone hotlines or confidential complaints boxes and ensure that complainants are not subject to reprisal. 119. Regarding safeguards and prevention, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure prompt registration of all persons deprived of their liberty with at least the minimum information required under article 4 of the 2015 anti-torture law, update existing logbooks to reflect these new obligations and periodically inspect records at police and prison facilities to ensure that they are maintained in accordance with the established procedures; (b) Ensure that both suspects and accused individuals have access to a lawyer of their own choosing from the moment of apprehension, without the presence of judicial police and without requiring the authorization of the prosecutor, including in national security and terrorism cases; (c) Ensure that indigent defendants, no matter the charges they are facing, are effectively provided with apt, State-funded, legal representation — either through a public defender system, legal aid, bar association services, the case-by-case payment of attorneys’ fees by the State or any other means — as a fundamental safeguard against torture and ill-treatment, in all regions and through all stages of criminal proceedings; (d) End the practice of secret and incommunicado detention in unofficial and unrecognized detention locations; (e) Ensure that statements or confessions made by persons deprived of their liberty other than those made in the presence of a judge and with the assistance of legal counsel have no probative value in proceedings against them; (f) Ensure that national police, gendarmerie and national guard officers receive adequate training to ensure that national procedures are compliant with in international human rights law; (g) Create and develop medical forensic capacity and infrastructure and ensure the adequate training of all health professionals involved with detainees, including by providing specific training on the forensic assessment and documentation of ill-treatment and torture, in accordance with the Istanbul Protocol and the Minnesota Protocol; (h) Authorize and facilitate the regular, effective and independent monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty by international and regional bodies, the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture, the National Human Rights Commission and civil society organizations; 21

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