38. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the commencement of the ratification process of the OPCAT and encourages the Government to establish an independent and effective national preventive mechanism mandated to carry visits to all places of detention. 39. Finally, the Special Rapporteur expresses concern about reports of inhumane and degrading treatment, including routine sedation, the use of cage beds to their and other abuse of children and adults with disabilities residing at the Children‘s Care Center of Lechaina in Ilias Prefecture in Greece. He calls upon the authorities to conclude the investigations into the reported death of three people at the center, launch public prosecutions without delay, where the evidence warrants it and make the names of perpetrators known to public. A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 89

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