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 page 60 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3)

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