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Follow-up procedure
46.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 9 December 2016,
information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations relating to the
following: the presence of a lawyer during police questioning; the establishment of
independent mechanisms to investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment by law
enforcement officials; the use of detention pending deportation; prompt, thorough
and impartial investigations of all allegations of acts of torture or ill-treatment; and
the use of electrical discharge weapons in prison settings (paras. 9 (a) and (b), 23, 31
and 37). In the same context, the State party is invited to inform the Committee about
its plans for implementing, within the coming reporting period, some or all of the
remaining recommendations in the concluding observations.
Other issues
47.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its core document in
accordance with the requirements contained in the harmonized guidelines on
reporting under the international human rights bodies (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6).
48.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the present concluding observations in appropriate languages through
official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
49.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its next report, which will be
its seventh, by 9 December 2019. For that purpose, and in view of the fact that the
State party has agreed to report to the Committee under the simplified reporting
procedure, the Committee will, in due course, transmit to the State party a list of
issues prior to reporting. The State party’s replies to that list of issues will constitute
its seventh periodic report under article 19 of the Convention.
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