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preferably for all purposes, or at least reducing its status to that of a temporary detention
facility.
18.
Recommendation (j) stated: The Special Rapporteur welcomes the continuation
of the provision of advisory services by the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights; he notes that the publication in the Professional Training Series entitled
Human Rights and Law Enforcement: A Manual on Human Rights Training for the Police
has been translated into Azeri; accordingly, the Government is invited to give favourable
consideration to putting emphasis, in the technical cooperation programme, on training
activities for the police and possibly investigators of the Ministry of National Security once
recommendation (i) has been implemented.
19.
The Government reported that an OSCE Police Assistance Programme for Azerbaijan
project was developed in 2004 in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The
programme provides for assistance to the Police Academy, the training of qualified staff,
awareness-raising in the field of human rights among police officers, among other things.
20.
Recommendation (k) stated: The Government should also consider requesting
advisory services from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding
training activities for officials from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
21.
Recommendation (l) stated: The Government is invited to consider favourably
making the declaration provided for in article 22 of the Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, whereby the
Committee against Torture could receive individual complaints from persons alleging
non-compliance with the terms of the Convention. It is also invited similarly to consider
ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
so that the Human Rights Committee can receive individual complaints.
22.
The Government reported that on 1 February 2002 it made the relevant declaration
provided for in article 22 of the Convention.
Chile
Seguimiento dado a las recomendaciones del Relator Especial reflejadas en su informe sobre su
visita a Chile en agosto de 1995 (E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.2, párr. 76).
23.
Por carta de fecha 29 de octubre de 2004, el Gobierno proporcionó la siguiente
información sobre el estado actual de las situaciones consideradas en las recomendaciones del
Relator Especial.
24.
La recomendación a) dice: La policía uniformada (carabineros) deberá quedar
sometida a la autoridad, no ya del Ministro de Defensa, sino del Ministro del Interior. Los
carabineros deberán quedar sometidos a la jurisdicción penal ordinaria únicamente, y no a
la jurisdicción militar. En tanto el Código Penal Militar siga aplicándose a la policía
uniformada, no cabría considerar en ningún caso que los actos de violaciones penales de los
derechos humanos, incluida la tortura de civiles, constituyen "actos cometidos en el