CAT/C/CR/29/2 page 4 (g) The numerous instances in prisons of prisoner-on-prisoner violence and violence against prisoners by prison officers, which have led to serious injuries and in some cases to death. The precarious material conditions in prisons are also a matter for concern; (h) The lack of information, including statistical data, on torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, broken down by nationality, gender, ethnic group, geographical location and type and place of detention. D. Recommendations 11. The Committee recommends that the State party should: (a) Adopt legislation making torture a punishable offence. Pursuant to the fourth transitional provision of the new Constitution, this requires a special act or the reform of the Penal Code within a year of the establishment of the National Assembly; this period had already been greatly exceeded; (b) Adopt all necessary measures to ensure immediate and impartial investigation of all cases of complaints of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The agents concerned should be suspended from their duties during these investigations; (c) Adopt measures to regulate and institutionalize the right of victims of torture to fair and adequate compensation and draw up programmes for their physical and mental rehabilitation to the fullest extent possible, as the Committee had already recommended in its previous conclusions and recommendations; (d) Continue its activities of education in and promotion of human rights, particularly the prohibition of acts of torture, for law-enforcement and medical personnel; (e) Adopt measures to improve material conditions of detention in prisons and prevent both prisoner-on-prisoner violence and violence against prisoners by prison personnel. It is also recommended that the State party should strengthen independent prison inspection procedures. 12. The Committee requests that the State party should include statistical data in its next periodic report, broken down, inter alia, by nationality, age and gender of the victims, and an indication of the services to which the persons accused belong, with regard to cases under the Convention coming before domestic bodies; it should also include the results of the investigations carried out and the consequences for the victims in terms of redress and compensation. 13. The Committee invites the State party to submit its fourth periodic report at latest by 20 August 2004 and to disseminate widely the Committee’s conclusions and recommendations. -----