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allocation of space and levels of ventilation and hygiene comply with international
standards;
(b)
Allocate adequate resources to prison health services and ensure that
medical services in detention centres are under the administration of the Ministry of
Health;
(c)
Ensure that general prison staff receive adequate training on how to deal
with particularly vulnerable categories of detainees and how to identify signs of torture
and ill-treatment and the first signs of potential mental illness and other medically
relevant states;
(d)
Ensure that the medical registration forms currently used are adapted so
that they meet the recommendations of the Istanbul Protocol;
(e)
Ensure the adoption and implementation of special health programmes to
address situations that occur frequently in detention facilities, such as the spread of
contagious diseases, or to provide for inmates with a drug addiction or with HIV/AIDS;
(f)
Introduce effective drug-replacement therapy in detention centres;
(g)
Introduce alternative regimes and separate institutions for juveniles,
keeping in mind that detention must always remain a measure of last resort for them.
Where detention is absolutely necessary, the State party should ensure that all juveniles
benefit from regular family contact and educational and recreational opportunities;
(h)
Systematically supervise and, where necessary, investigate the conditions
of detention and treatment of patients in psychiatric hospitals, and take all other
necessary measures to ensure compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities;
(i)
Ensure that decisions concerning legal capacity, involuntary
hospitalization and involuntary treatment are subject to regular judicial oversight;
(j)
Provide age-appropriate and accessible information to institutionalized
children on their health status and alternatives to medication in institutions where they
are being placed.
2.
Recommendations to the de facto authorities in Donetsk and Luhansk
122.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the de facto authorities:
(a)
Respect the absolute and universal prohibition of torture and other illtreatment under both human rights law and international humanitarian law;
(b)
Permit regular, independent and impartial international monitoring,
including through ICRC and OHCHR, based on the principles of unrestricted and
unannounced access to all places of detention and the complete privacy of interviews
with all inmates;
(c)
Take all necessary precautionary measures to prevent torture and illtreatment, including through prompt and impartial investigation of allegations of
torture and ill-treatment and through the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators,
including commanders and superiors culpably failing to prevent violations by their
subordinates;
(d)
Ensure that all members of armed groups and all representatives of the
de facto authorities are properly supervised and trained in the rules of international
humanitarian law and, in particular, the obligations and standards derived from the
prohibition of torture and ill-treatment;
(e)
Issue clear orders prohibiting torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment under all circumstances and without any exceptions;
(f)
Share relevant information with authorities that have mandates to
investigate human rights violations or abuses and violations of international
humanitarian law, including torture and other ill-treatment, and support their efforts
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