Article 13
1. The Subcommittee on Prevention shall establish, at first by lot, a
programme of regular visits to the States Parties in order to fulfil its mandate
as established in article 11.
2. After consultations, the Subcommittee on Prevention shall notify the States
Parties of its programme in order that they may, without delay, make the
necessary practical arrangements for the visits to be conducted.
3. The visits shall be conducted by at least two members of the Subcommittee
on Prevention. These members may be accompanied, if needed, by experts of
demonstrated professional experience and knowledge in the fields covered by
the present Protocol who shall be selected from a roster of experts prepared on
the basis of proposals made by the States Parties, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Centre
for International Crime Prevention. In preparing the roster, the States Parties
concerned shall propose no more than five national experts. The State Party
concerned may oppose the inclusion of a specific expert in the visit,
whereupon the Subcommittee on Prevention shall propose another expert.
4. If the Subcommittee on Prevention considers it appropriate, it may propose
a short followup visit after a regular visit.
Article 14
1. In order to enable the Subcommittee on Prevention to fulfil its mandate, the
States Parties to the present Protocol undertake to grant it:
(a) Unrestricted access to all information concerning the number of persons
deprived of their liberty in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as
the number of places and their location;
(b) Unrestricted access to all information referring to the treatment of those
persons as well as
their conditions of detention;
(c) Subject to paragraph 2 below, unrestricted access to all places of detention
and their
installations and facilities;
(d) The opportunity to have private interviews with the persons deprived of
their liberty without witnesses, either personally or with a translator if deemed
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