Situation during visit
(A/HRC/4/33/Add.3)
(r) Pretrial and
convicted prisoners be
strictly separated
The Government informed the
Special Rapporteur that
Correction and rehabilitation
centres operate on a system
based on separation of
convicted persons from
persons awaiting trial.
Steps taken in previous years
(to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2)
• Measures were taken to improve the
conditions in GID detention
• Inmates working in prisons have
been included in social security
programmes
2008: Two new prisons were opened.
Information received on steps taken since
December 2007/current situation
•
•
(s) The Criminal
Procedure Code be
amended to ensure that
the automatic recourse
to pretrial detention,
which is the current de
facto general practice,
be authorized by a
judge strictly only as a
Non-governmental sources: According
to the Ministry of Interior’s Public
Security Department, on 7 April 2008,
authorities began to separate pretrial
and administrative detainees from
convicted prisoners. Qafqafa, Swaqa
and Muwaqqar prisons seem to be
intended exclusively for convicted
prisoners
Convicts are further segregated
according to age, health, crime, and
general behaviour. Under article 3(d) of
the 2007 Law on the Correction and
Rehabilitation Centers, the
classification is to be made by a
psychiatrist, a general doctor and a
social worker
A/HRC/10/44/Add.5
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Recommendation
(A/HRC/4/33/Add.3)
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