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(i)
Transfer the responsibility of detained persons in temporary holding
facilities from the Ministry of the Interior to the Ministry of Justice;
(j)
Issue directives on the proper conduct of interrogations of persons in police
custody, including the total prohibition of ill-treatment and torture;
(k)
Provide an information sheet in the appropriate languages in all police
stations to inform all detainees of all their rights immediately after their arrest;
(l)
Improve the conditions of detention in police stations and prisons so as to
bring them into conformity with article 16 of the Convention, and establish an independent
and systematic system to monitor the treatment in practice of persons arrested, detained or
imprisoned;
(m)
Reinforce human rights education and promotion activities regarding the
prohibition of torture, particularly for law enforcement and medical personnel, and
introduce training in these subjects in official education programmes;
(n)
Provide in the next periodic report detailed statistical data, disaggregated by
crime, region, ethnicity and gender, on complaints relating to torture and ill-treatment
allegedly committed by law enforcement officials, as well as related investigations,
prosecutions and disciplinary sentences and redress offered to victims;
(o)
Widely disseminate the Committee’s conclusions and recommendations in
the State party in all appropriate languages.
7.
The Committee requests the State party to provide responses to the questions asked by its
members by 31 August 2003.
8.
The State party is invited to submit its next periodic report, which will be considered as
the second, by 27 December 2004.
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