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• Aim at private interviews, especially on sensitive issues, and with persons
in a situation of vulnerability;
• Never discuss staff violence in group interviews; prevent detainees in
talking about this in public;
• During interviews, don’t ask about names and other details with no
cogent reasons;
• Avoid concrete recommendations to the staff concerning specific
detainees after the visit;
• Offer your address, phone number and other contacts to detainees who
may be threatened.
The safety concern does not end with the visit. After the visit, when
preparing the report or recommendations, the monitoring team should
consider carefully what details and names it includes within them, and
should never do this unless it is safe for the detainees. When needed,
it should carry out follow up visits to check safety concerns. Where the
safety of a detainee is compromised, the NPM should never hesitate to
complain officially.
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