E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.2 page 53 of the conditions of the prisoners, and impose difficulties on visits by relatives because the prisoners would then be held in distant facilities. 251. Recommendation (u) stated: All competent government authorities should give immediate attention and respond to interim measures ordered by the Human Rights Committee and urgent appeals dispatched by United Nations monitoring mechanisms regarding persons whose life and physical integrity may be at risk of imminent and irreparable harm. 252. According to the information received from non-governmental sources, since the publication of the Special Rapporteur’s report in February 2003 at least nine death row prisoners have been executed despite the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s requests for stays of executions pending its consideration of the cases. 253. Recommendation (v) stated: The Government is invited to make the declaration provided for in article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment recognizing the competence of the Committee against Torture to receive and consider communications from individuals who claim to be victims of a violation of the provisions of the Convention, as well as to ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention, whereby a body shall be set up to undertake regular visits to all places of detention in the country in order to prevent torture. It should also invite the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders as well as the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers to carry out visits to the country. 254. According to the information received from non-governmental sources, the Government has not made the declaration provided for in article 22 of the Convention, ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention or extended invitations to other United Nations special mechanisms although the actions in part 22 of the Plan provide for “considering the possibility” and “studying the practice” in 2004 and 2005. 255. The Government reported that these questions are under consideration by Uzbekistan. -----