Composition, criteria, manner of nomination and engagement of working body members
referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be determined in the Rules of Procedure of the
Protector.
Article 25b
Prevention of torture includes the following:
visiting bodies, institutions or organizations in which are or could be placed persons
deprived of their liberty and persons with restricted movement in order to increase the
level of their protection from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment;
giving recommendations to the competent bodies, institutions and organizations to
improve the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and the conditions in which
they are staying, or the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment;
giving opinions on laws and regulations for the protection and promotion of human
rights and freedoms of persons deprived of their liberty and persons with restricted
movement;
Cooperation with the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to
as the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture).
Persons deprived of their liberty within the meaning of this Law shall be persons under any
kind of retention, detention, imprisonment or placement under the supervision of an authority,
who can not abandon such place at their own will.
Article 25c
In the performance of the prevention of torture, the Protector and the Deputy Protector, as
well as the Advisor to the Protector and the Members of the working body referred to in
Article 25, paragraph 2 of this Law, who are authorized by the Protector, shall have the right
to:
without prior notice, visit authorities, institutions and organizations, and inspect
premises in which are placed or could be placed persons deprived of their liberty;
access freely to information on the authorities, institutions and organizations in which
are staying persons deprived of their liberty;
access freely to information on the number of persons deprived of their liberty in the
authority, institution, or organization they are visiting;
access freely to information on the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty;
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