prepared on the basis of proposals made by the States Parties, the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations
Centre for International Crime Prevention. In preparing the roster, the States
Parties concerned shall propose no more than five national experts. The State
Party concerned may oppose the inclusion of a specific expert in the visit,
whereupon the Subcommittee on Prevention shall propose another expert.
4. If the Subcommittee on Prevention considers it appropriate, it may
propose a short follow-up visit after a regular visit.
Article 14
1. In order to enable the Subcommittee on Prevention to fulfil its mandate,
the States Parties to the present Protocol undertake to grant it:
(a) Unrestricted access to all information concerning the number of persons
deprived of their liberty in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as
the number of places and their location;
(b) Unrestricted access to all information referring to the treatment of those
persons as well as their conditions of detention;
(c) Subject to paragraph 2 below, unrestricted access to all places of
detention and their installations and facilities;
(d) The opportunity to have private interviews with the persons deprived of
their liberty without witnesses, either personally or with a translator if deemed
necessary, as well as with any other person who the Subcommittee on Prevention
believes may supply relevant information;
(e) The liberty to choose the places it wants to visit and the persons it wants
to interview.
2. Objection to a visit to a particular place of detention may be made only
on urgent and compelling grounds of national defence, public safety, natural
disaster or serious disorder in the place to be visited that temporarily prevent the
carrying out of such a visit. The existence of a declared state of emergency as
such shall not be invoked by a State Party as a reason to object to a visit.
Article 15
No authority or official shall order, apply, permit or tolerate any sanction
against any person or organization for having communicated to the Subcommittee
on Prevention or to its delegates any information, whether true or false, and no
such person or organization shall be otherwise prejudiced in any way.
Article 16
1. The Subcommittee on Prevention shall communicate its
recommendations and observations confidentially to the State Party and, if
relevant, to the national preventive mechanism.
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