CAT/C/SRB/CO/2 The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Accelerate the development of alternative community-based support measures to reduce the number of institutionalized persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities and ensure that involuntary confinement in places of detention, including psychiatric and social care institutions, is done only on the basis of a legal decision that is subject to periodic judicial review, guaranteeing all effective legal safeguards; (b) Amend legislation to prohibit the use of seclusion on children and persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities and ensure that the use of restraints is avoided or applied only as a measure of last resort, when all other alternatives for control have failed, for the shortest possible time, under strict medical supervision, and that any such measure is duly recorded; (c) Carry out frequent inspections and investigate, effectively and impartially, incidents of ill-treatment and excessive use of restrictive measures in psychiatric institutions and provide victims with remedies and redress; (d) Improve the conditions of detention and treatment of persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities in psychiatric institutions and other centres in order to better respect their privacy and prepare them for an adequate return to the community. Attacks on journalists, human rights defenders and minorities 19. The Committee is highly concerned that human rights defenders, journalists, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and members of the Roma community continue to be attacked, threatened and intimidated. It regrets the lack of complete statistics on the number of complaints of and convictions for threats and attacks on these groups and on measures taken to prevent such acts. The Committee is also greatly concerned at reports that law enforcement authorities fail to act with due diligence in investigating and punishing these cases and in applying legal provisions for crimes motivated by hate (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16). The Committee calls on the State party to publicly condemn threats and attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons and members of the Roma community and refrain from supporting, through action or omission, such attacks by ensuring: (a) The effective protection of these groups against threats and attacks to which they may be exposed on account of their activities, sexual orientation or ethnic origin; (b) Prompt, thorough and effective investigations of all threats and attacks targeting these groups, including any alleged discriminatory motives that may provoke these actions, and guaranteeing that those responsible are tried and punished in accordance with the gravity of their acts; (c) Effective training of law-enforcement officials and the judiciary on hatemotivated crimes and the systematic monitoring of such crimes; (d) Awareness-raising measures to counter prejudice and stereotypes, and policies to combat and prevent hate-related crimes and discrimination, in particular on the basis of sexual orientation, identity or ethnic origin. 9