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. 61

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