CAT/C/PRT/CO/7 38. The State party should: (a) Ensure that, in practice, no one may be expelled, returned or extradited to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would run a personal and foreseeable risk of being subjected to torture and illtreatment; (b) Ensure that procedural safeguards against refoulement are in place and that effective remedies with respect to refoulement claims in removal proceedings are available, including reviews of rejections by an independent judicial body, in particular on appeal; (c) Take measures to increase reception capacity and enable the relocation of pending relocation requests; (d) Ensure the establishment of effective mechanisms to promptly identify victims of torture among asylum seekers. Immigration detention 39. The Committee notes with concern reports of excessive retention of asylum seekers, including immigration retention orders being issued without individualized assessment or consideration of alternative measures. Pre-removal and transit facilities at airports are reportedly not equipped for extended retention, especially for unaccompanied and separated children, families with children and pregnant women. Also of concern is the entrance fee for the airport terminal, charged by a private company, which impedes access by lawyers and medics to individuals held in detention facilities at airports (arts. 2 and 11). 40. The State party should: (a) Refrain from retaining asylum seekers and irregular migrants for prolonged periods, use retention as a measure of last resort and only for as short a period as possible, by ensuring individualized assessments, and promote the application of non-custodial measures; (b) Ensure that unaccompanied and separated children and families with children are not retained solely because of their immigration status; (c) Take the measures necessary to ensure appropriate reception conditions for asylum seekers and irregular migrants, and strengthen its efforts to ensure adequate living conditions in all immigration centres; (d) Guarantee that retained asylum seekers and irregular migrants have unhindered, prompt and adequate access to counsel, including legal aid services. Sexual and gender-based violence 41. The Committee is concerned at reports of lenient sentences imposed on perpetrators of acts of gender-based violence. In that connection, it takes note of the disciplinary proceedings opened against judges in this respect during the period under review. The Committee regrets that the State party has not provided complete information on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions, convictions and sentences imposed in cases of gender-based violence against women and children, including domestic violence, since the adoption of the previous concluding observations. Regarding female genital mutilation during the reporting period, the Committee notes with concern that, according to the information provided by the delegation, there were no criminal complaints relating to this crime during the period 2017–2018, while 117 possible cases (“situations”) were flagged between January 2018 and September 2019 (arts. 2 and 16). 42. The State party should: (a) Ensure that all cases of gender-based violence, especially those involving actions or omissions by State authorities or other entities which engage the international responsibility of the State party under the Convention, are thoroughly investigated, that the alleged perpetrators are prosecuted and, if convicted, punished 8