The State party should take all necessary steps to prevent and reduce the number of deaths in detention
facilities. Adequate provision of and access to medical care should be provided, and suicide prevention
programmes should be established in such facilities. The Committee also recommends that the State
party conduct a comprehensive analysis of the link, if any, between the number of such deaths and
prevalence of torture and other forms of ill-treatment in detention.
(15)
The Committee expresses its concern at the number of suicides in the military and at the lack of precise
information on the number of suicides caused by ill-treatment and abuse, including hazing, at the hands of military
personnel.
The State party should prevent ill-treatment and abusive measures in the military. It is encouraged to
conduct systematic research into the causes of suicides in the military and to evaluate the effectiveness of
current measures and programmes, such as the ombudsman system, to prevent such deaths.
Comprehensive programmes for the prevention of suicides in the military may include, inter alia,
awareness-raising, training and education activities for all military personnel.
(16)
The Committee is concerned at reports that criminal trials regularly invoke and place great reliance on
investigation records, often encouraging investigators to obtain confessions from suspects. The Committee also notes
with concern that the number of convictions based on confessions under the National Security Law has not been
provided.
The State party should ensure that statements made as a result of torture cannot be invoked as evidence
in any proceedings. In this regard, the Committee recommends the adoption of the relevant
amendments to the Criminal Procedure Act, currently pending before the National Assembly, which
would place stricter conditions on the admissibility of written evidence in legal proceedings. The
Committee also recommends that the State party include, in its next report, information on any specific
jurisprudence excluding statements obtained as a result of torture, as well as precise data on the number
of convictions under the National Security Law based on confessions, and information as to whether any
investigations are conducted into whether such confessions are coerced, and/or anyone has been found
guilty of torture in this connection.
(17)
The Committee is concerned at the prevalence of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence,
including marital rape, and notes the low rate of indictments, resulting in part from settlements and agreements made in
the investigation process. The Committee also notes that marital rape is not a criminal offence under the law.
The State party should ensure that victims of marital rape and gender-based violence have access to
immediate means of redress and protection, that measures aimed at seeking settlement and agreements
in investigation processes are not detrimental to women who are victims of abuse, and that perpetrators
are prosecuted and punished. The Committee urges the State party to continue to undertake
awareness-raising and training activities on the issue for the public at large and particularly for
legislators, the judiciary, law-enforcement personnel and health-service providers. The Committee also
urges the State party to take all necessary measures to ensure that marital rape constitutes a criminal
offence.
(18)
The Committee regrets the absence of data, disaggregated by age and sex, on complaints relating to torture and
ill-treatment allegedly committed by law-enforcement officials and on the related investigations, prosecutions and penal
and disciplinary sentences, as well as statistical data on the number of women and children trafficked for purposes of
prostitution. Information is also requested on any compensation and rehabilitation provided to victims. Information is
further requested on the results of the studies recommended in paragraphs 14 and 15 above.
(19)
The State party should widely disseminate its report, as well as its reply to the list of issues, and the conclusions
and recommendations of the Committee, in all appropriate languages through official websites, the media and
non-governmental organizations.
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