(r) Pre-trial and convicted prisoners be strictly separated. Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) - A committee was created within the Ministry of Interior to consider alternative sentencing measures; - An ―Office for Prison Reform‖ has been mandated to devise strategies and plans to modernize mechanisms to accomplish the goal of combating torture; - A new Reform and Rehabilitation Centre was built in Al-Muqar to address the problem of overcrowding; construction of more new centres is being considered; - Measures were taken to improve the conditions in GID detention; - Inmates working in prisons have been included in social security programmes; Non-governmental sources: In July 2009, a Committee was set up by the Ministries of Interior, Justice, Health and Social Development, together with the PSD and a representative from the NCHR to study the proposed amendments to the Law of Reform and rehabilitation centres and the Code on Criminal Procedure for the introduction of alternative sanctions and the enforcement of the presence of the judge during the implementation of the sentence. The Government informed the - Two new prisons were opened in 2008; Special Rapporteur that - According to the Ministry of Interior‘s PSD, on 7 Correction and rehabilitation April 2008, authorities began to separate pre-trial centres operate on a system and administrative detainees from convicted Information received in the reporting period A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 158 Recommendation Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Committee against Torture to receive and consider communications from individuals who claim to be victims of a violation of the provisions of the Convention. (q) Non-violent offenders be removed from confinement in pretrial detention facilities, subject to non-custodial measures (i.e. guarantees to appear for trial, at any other stage of the judicial proceeding and, should occasion arise, for execution of the judgement).