against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment;
(c) To encourage and facilitate contacts between the Subcommittee on
Prevention and the national preventive mechanisms;
(d) To examine the recommendations of the Subcommittee on
Prevention and enter into dialogue with it on possible implementation
measures.
Article 13
1. The Subcommittee on Prevention shall establish, at first by lot, a
programme of regular visits to the States Parties in order to fulfill its
mandate as established in article 11.
2. After consultations, the Subcommittee on Prevention shall notify the
States Parties of its programme in order that they may, without delay, make
the necessary practical arrangements for the visits to be conducted.
3. The visits shall be conducted by at least two members of the
Subcommittee on Prevention. These members may be accompanied, if
needed, by experts of demonstrated professional experience and knowledge
in the fields covered by the present Protocol who shall be selected from a
roster of experts prepared on the basis of proposals made by the States
Parties, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights and the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention. In
preparing the roster, the States Parties concerned shall propose no more than
five national experts. The State Party concerned may oppose the inclusion
of a specific expert in the visit, whereupon the Subcommittee on Prevention
shall propose another expert.
4. If the Subcommittee on Prevention considers it appropriate, it may
propose a short follow-up visit after a regular visit.
Article 14
1. In order to enable the Subcommittee on Prevention to fulfill its
mandate, the States Parties to the present Protocol undertake to grant it:
(a) Unrestricted access to all information concerning the number of
persons deprived of their liberty in places of detention as defined in article
4, as well as the number of places and their location;
(b) Unrestricted access to all information referring to the treatment of
those persons as well as their conditions of detention;
(c) Subject to paragraph 2 below, unrestricted access to all places of
detention and their installations and facilities;
(d) The opportunity to have private interviews with the persons
deprived of their liberty without witnesses, either personally or with a
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