The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area 19. Please list the number, age, gender and race/ethnicity of any persons who have been executed whilst a procedure regarding their case was ongoing before an international body. SAFEGUARDS 20. What safeguards are in place in your country to protect pregnant women, children and persons with mental disabilities facing the death penalty? 21. What safeguards are in place to minimize the risk that gender bias, or any other form of bias, may affect the decisions to impose death sentences? 22. What safeguards are in place to minimize the risk that gender bias, or any other form of bias, may affect the decisions on clemency? 23. What measures are undertaken to ensure that the different needs of women and mend facing the death penalty (e.g. in the course of legal proceedings, in detention etc.) are addressed? 24. What safeguards are in place to protect children who have a parent facing the death penalty in your country and abroad (relevant to nationals of your country)? 25. Please describe if there have been any changes in the procedure for informing all non-nationals who have been accused of committing a crime, for which the death penalty is a potential sentence, of their right to receive consular assistance. Is this procedure mandatory? 26. Please provide details on the number and the treatment of women and men on death row as well as on gender related aspects of those awaiting execution. Are official medical reports on psychological status of death row prisoners available? 27. How does your country respond to the death row phenomenon, which consists of a combination of circumstances that produce severe mental trauma and physical deterioration in prisoners under sentence of death? Those circumstances include the lengthy and anxiety-ridden wait for uncertain outcomes, isolation, drastically reduced human contact and even the physical conditions in which some inmates are held. 28. Please provide information on the methods of execution used in your country and the assessments made with regard to the pain and suffering caused by each of these methods. MISCELLANEOUS 29. Which state body is responsible for keeping statistics on sentences, executions and commutations? 30. Please indicate ways in which you have co-operated with local and international organizations on this issue of the death penalty in the period from 1 July 2015 to 31 March 2016. End of Questionnaire 107