A/HRC/4/33/Add.2 Page 25 140. Recommendation (k) stated: The power to order or approve arrest and supervision of the police and detention facilities of the procurators should be transferred to independent courts.2 141. Recommendation (l) stated: Section 306 of the Criminal Law, according to which any lawyer who counsels a client to repudiate a forced confession, for example, could risk prosecution should be abolished. Other measures of prevention 142. Recommendation (m) stated: The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture should be ratified, and a truly independent monitoring mechanism be established where the members of the visiting commissions would be appointed for a fixed period and not subject to dismissal to visit all places where persons are deprived of their liberty throughout the country. 143. Recommendation (n) stated: Systematic training programmes and awarenessraising campaigns should be carried out on the principles of the Convention against Torture for the public at large, public security personnel, legal professionals and the judiciary. 144. Recommendation (o) stated: Victims of torture and ill- treatment should receive substantial compensation proportionate to the gravity of the physical and mental harm suffered, and adequate medical treatment and rehabilitation. Circumstances surrounding capital punishment 145. Recommendation (p) stated: Death row prisoners should not be subjected to additional punishment such as being handcuffed and shackled. 146. Recommendation (q) stated: The restoration of Supreme Court review for all death sentences should be utilized as an opportunity to publish national statistics on the application of the death penalty. 147. Recommendation (r) stated: The scope of the death penalty should be reduced, e.g. by abolishing it for economic and non -violent crimes. Deprivation of liberty for political crimes 148. Recommendation (s) stated: Political crimes that leave large discretion to law enforcement and prosecution authorities such as “endangering national security”, “subverting State power”, “undermining the unity of the country”, “supplying of State secrets to individuals abroad”, etc. should be abolished. 149. Recommendation (t) stated: All persons who have been sentenced for the peaceful exercise of freedom of speech, assembly, association and religion, on the basis of vaguely 2 A similar recommendation was made by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on 29 December 2004 (E/CN.4/2005/6/Add.4, , para 78).