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D. Recommendations
8.
The Committee recommends, in particular, that the State party:
(a)
Expressly incorporate within its domestic law a crime of torture in terms that are
consistent with article 1 of the Convention;
(b)
Convention;
Re-examine its imposition of corporal punishments, which are in breach of the
(c)
Ensure that its laws are in practice applied to all persons, regardless of nationality,
gender, religious affiliation or other distinction, insofar as issues arising under the Convention
are concerned;
(d)
Ensure that all places of detention or imprisonment conform to standards
sufficient to guarantee that no person is thereby subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment;
(e)
Convention;
Ensure that its law and practice reflect the obligations imposed by article 3 of the
(f)
Ensure that all persons who have been victims of a violation of their rights under
the Convention have access, in law as well as in practice, to the means of obtaining full redress,
including compensation, and that the persons who may be responsible for such violations are
promptly and impartially investigated, and thereupon punished;
(g)
Ensure that its Mutawe’en officials exercise a clear and precise jurisdiction, in
conformity with the Convention and other applicable rules of non-discrimination, in a manner
regulated by law and subject to review by ordinary judicial authority;
(h)
Ensure, in practice, that persons detained in custody are able to exercise prompt
access to legal and medical expertise of choice, to family members and, in the case of foreign
nationals, to consular personnel;
(i)
Ensure that the composition of the judiciary fully conforms to the standards
imposed by the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary;
(j)
Ensure that its training of law enforcement personnel includes education and
information on the recognition of the physical consequences of torture consistent with that
provided to a number of its medical personnel, in accordance with article 10 of the Convention;
(k)
Adopt adequate measures to permit the creation of independent non-governmental
organizations and the development of their activities in the area of the defence of human rights;