CAT/C/JOR/CO/3 withdrawal of national identification numbers from Jordanians of Palestinian origin, thus subjecting them to the risk of unlawful expulsion and compromising their rights to, inter alia, education and health care (arts. 3 and 16). 16. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CAT/C/JOR/CO/2, para. 24) to put an end to the arbitrary withdrawal of national identification numbers from Jordanians of Palestinian origin. The State party must also ensure that decisions concerning revocation of nationality are taken by a competent authority and meet relevant international criteria, including the right of persons concerned to be heard and to challenge such decisions. Fundamental legal safeguards 17. The Committee notes the procedural safeguards set out in articles 100 and 113, among others, of the Code of Criminal Procedure. However, it regrets the absence of an explicit provision on the right to access a lawyer immediately upon arrest; that articles 63 (2) and 64 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure allow the interrogation of detainees without the presence of a lawyer “in case of urgency”; and that article 66 (1) of the same Code allows the public prosecutor to prohibit communication with a detainee for a period of up to 10 days, which is renewable. The Committee is concerned at the State party’s failure to ensure the application of these and other fundamental legal safeguards to prevent torture and ill-treatment. In that respect, the Committee is concerned about consistent reports that detainees, in particular those held in facilities of the General Intelligence Directorate and the Public Security Directorate, are frequently deprived of timely access to a lawyer and a medical doctor, as well as of their right to notify a person of their choice. It is also concerned by allegations regarding the failure to adhere to the 24-hour limit for bringing detainees before a competent authority and to ensure the confidentiality of clientlawyer consultations (art. 2). 18. The State party should ensure that all detainees are afforded, by law and in practice, all fundamental legal safeguards from the very outset of their deprivation of liberty, including the right to be assisted by a lawyer without delay; the right to have immediate access to an independent medical doctor, regardless of any medical examination that may be conducted at the request of the authorities; to be informed of the reasons for the arrest and the nature of any charges against them, in a language that they understand; to be registered at the place of detention; to promptly inform a close relative or a third party of their arrest; to be brought before a judge without delay; and the right to confidential consultations with lawyers. Pretrial detention 19. The Committee is concerned about the high number of people placed in pretrial detention. It is also concerned that, as a result, on-remand inmates are not systematically separated from convicted prisoners, nor children from adults (arts. 2, 11 and 16). 20. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to reduce the number of people placed in pretrial detention, including by resorting to alternatives to imprisonment. The State party should also ensure the separation of pretrial detainees from convicted prisoners and minors from adults, in all places of detention. Administrative detention 21. The Committee is highly concerned at the continuous recourse to administrative detention by the State party under the Crimes Prevention Act (1954), which allows for detention without charge and raises issues about the separation of powers between the 4