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28.
The Observatory currently holds a comprehensive list of all places of deprivation of
liberty.
29.
To sum up, the Observatory has taken note of all the other recommendations relating
to methodology contained in the visit report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
concerning unannounced visits, the length of visits to certain prisons, individual or group
interviews with prisoners, relations between prison staff and detainees and all other issues,
and will include them in the updated version of the Guidance, which will be prepared in
early 2014.
IV. Replies to final recommendations
30.
The Director of the Observatory will regularly examine his working methods and
will undergo training to enhance his capacity to fulfil his obligations under the Optional
Protocol.
31.
It may be noted that the Director of the Observatory has visited Paris and Geneva to
hold working meetings with his counterparts in those cities.
32.
The Director of the Observatory maintains excellent relations with the Regional
Office of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
33.
The Observatory would like to thank the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture for
its encouragement and undertakes to improve its working methods. The Observatory would
like to assure the Subcommittee that it will send it all its annual reports so as to benefit
from the Subcommittee’s assistance in achieving the shared goal of preventing torture and
ill-treatment by translating commitments into concrete actions.
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