A/69/44 perpetrators of these incidents, the Committee is concerned by the slow pace at which the State party is working to determine responsibility for the acts of torture, summary executions, rapes, sexual abuse, instances of sexual slavery, arrests, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances perpetrated during those events by law enforcement officers. The Committee is particularly disturbed at the massive sexual violence committed against girls and women during these events which has seldom been prosecuted, thereby contributing to a persistent climate of impunity. The Committee is also seriously concerned at the fact that certain individuals charged by the Guinean authorities with flagrant violations of human rights committed during these events are members of the current Government, namely Colonel Pivi, Minister for Presidential Security, and Moussa Tiegboro Camara, Secretary of State for Special Services, Drug Control and Organized Crime (arts. 2, 12, 13, 14 and 16). The State party should: (a) Ensure, as a matter of priority, that all the human rights violations committed during the events at Conakry Stadium, particularly the cases of torture and sexual violence, are systematically investigated, and promptly and impartially prosecuted, so as to guarantee to victims that the truth will be known, and justice and reparations granted, in accordance with the Convention and the Rome Statute, which Guinea ratified in 2003; (b) Ensure that witnesses are provided with adequate protection and financial resources under a witness protection programme; (c) Temporarily relieve of their duties, for so long as the investigation lasts, those members of the security forces who are suspected of having committed grave violations of human rights during the events at Conakry, while ensuring that the principle of the presumption of innocence is upheld; (d) Temporarily relieve of their duties all members of the Government accused of grave violations of human rights committed during the events at Conakry and in particular Colonel Pivi and Moussa Tiegboro Camara; (e) Cooperate closely with the preliminary investigation opened by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with regard to these events so as to bring the perpetrators before the Court. Forced confessions (11) The Committee deplores the fact that no legal provision establishes the inadmissibility in courts of statements or confessions extracted under torture, except when such statements are made against a person accused of torture. The Committee is also deeply concerned that the use of torture to extract confessions is extremely widespread in police stations and gendarmerie posts as well as in military detention centres (arts. 2 and 15). The State party should ensure that the Legislative Reform Commission lays down in legislation, without delay, a provision stipulating that confessions extracted under duress or through the use of torture shall be inadmissible as evidence in court. Accordingly, the State party should ensure that prosecutors, investigating judges and trial judges are made aware of the inadmissibility of statements obtained through the use of torture and of the obligation to open investigations when allegations of torture are brought to their attention. The State party should also ensure that detainees have prompt access to qualified medical personnel who are also trained in detecting physical and psychological evidence of torture and inhuman treatment, in accordance with the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Protocol). GE.14-12596 103