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(i)
Take urgent measures to improve conditions of detention in police stations and
prisons. It should, moreover, increase its efforts to remedy prison overcrowding and establish a
systematic and independent system to monitor the treatment in practice of persons arrested,
detained or imprisoned. In this connection, the State party should consider signing and ratifying
the Optional Protocol to the Convention;
(j)
Reinforce human rights education and promotion activities in general, and
regarding the prohibition of torture in particular, for law enforcement officials and medical
personnel, and introduce training in these subjects in official education programmes;
(k)
Take measures to regulate and institutionalize the right of victims of torture to fair
and adequate compensation, and to establish programmes for their physical and mental
rehabilitation;
(l)
Ensure that the reported practice of unlawful trafficking of persons is suppressed;
(m)
Provide data on: (a) the number of persons held in prisons and places of
detention, disaggregated by age, gender, ethnicity, geography and type of crime; (b) the number,
types and results of cases, both disciplinary and criminal, of police and other law enforcement
personnel accused of torture and related offences;
(n)
Ensure the wide distribution of these conclusions and recommendations
throughout Cambodia, in all the major languages.
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