A/69/44 The State party should ensure that all cases of forced internment in mental healthcare institutions are properly and duly registered. The Committee requests the State party to provide information on conditions for persons in psychiatric hospitals. Prompt, thorough and impartial investigations (18) The Committee expresses concern at reports of persistent impunity for police officers and prison officials who torture or ill-treat arrested and detained persons. The Committee notes that, according to the information provided by the State party’s delegation, 50 cases of torture reached the sentencing stage during the period under review, with sentences ranging between 6 months’ and 27 years’ imprisonment. Nonetheless, the State party was unable to provide comprehensive and disaggregated data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions in cases of torture and ill-treatment (arts. 2, 11, 12, 13 and 16). The State party should: (a) Take appropriate measures to ensure that all allegations of torture or illtreatment are promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigated, perpetrators are duly prosecuted and, if found guilty, sentenced to penalties that take into account the grave nature of their acts; (b) Ensure that investigations into allegations of torture or ill-treatment are conducted by an independent body that is not under the authority of the police; (c) Establish an independent complaints system for all persons deprived of their liberty; and (d) Unambiguously reaffirm the absolute prohibition of torture, publicly condemn practices of torture and issue a clear warning that anyone committing such acts or otherwise complicit or participating in torture will be held personally responsible before the law for those acts and will be subject to criminal prosecution and appropriate penalties. Deaths in custody (19) The Committee notes that, despite the request it made to the State party’s delegation to provide information on cases of death in custody that had occurred during the period under review, no information has been received on this subject (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The State party should take measures to ensure that all instances of death in custody are promptly investigated and that those found responsible for deaths in custody that result from torture, ill-treatment or wilful negligence are convicted and adequately punished. Redress, including compensation and rehabilitation (20) While noting the content of article 58 of the Constitution (Right to compensation and State responsibility) and the existence of several institutional mechanisms to claim redress for human rights violations, the Committee is concerned at reports that victims of torture and ill-treatment hardly ever receive redress, including adequate compensation and rehabilitation. In this regard, the Committee regrets that the State party provided insufficient information on redress and compensation measures, including means of rehabilitation, that have been ordered by the courts or other State bodies and actually provided to victims of torture or their families since the entry into force of the Convention in the State party (art. 14). The State party should take the necessary steps to ensure that victims of torture and ill-treatment receive redress, including fair and adequate compensation and the means for as full a rehabilitation as possible. The Committee draws the State party’s GE.14-12596 59