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(d)
Ensure in practice absolute respect for the principle of the inadmissibility of
evidence obtained by torture;
(e)
Take measures to establish and ensure the independence of the judiciary in the
performance of their duties in conformity with international standards, notably the Basic
Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary;
(f)
Adopt measures to permit detainees access to a lawyer, a doctor and family
members from the time they are taken into custody and ensure that doctors will be provided at
the request of detained persons without the need to obtain the permission of prison officials; and
maintain a register with the names of all detainees, the times at which notifications of lawyers,
doctors and family members have taken place and the results of medical examinations; this
register should be accessible to the lawyers and others as appropriate;
(g)
Improve conditions in prisons and pre-trial detention centres and establish a
system allowing for unannounced inspections of those places by credible impartial investigators,
whose findings should be made public. The State party should also take steps to shorten the
current pre-trial detention period and provide independent judicial oversight of the period and
conditions of pre-trial detention. Furthermore, the order for an arrest should be made only by a
court;
(h)
Ensure that law enforcement, judicial, medical and other personnel who are
involved in custody, interrogation, treatment or who otherwise come into contact with detainees
are trained with regard to the prohibition of torture and that the requalification procedure
(“re-attestation”) of those personnel include both verification of an awareness of the
Convention’s requirements and a review of their records in treating detainees;
(i)
Consider further steps to transfer the prison system from the Ministry of Internal
Affairs to the Ministry of Justice, thereby advancing the conditions of the penitentiary system in
accordance with the Convention;
(j)
Review cases of convictions based solely on confessions in the period since
Uzbekistan became a party to the Convention, recognizing that many of these may have been
based upon evidence obtained through torture or ill-treatment, and, as appropriate, provide
prompt and impartial investigations and take appropriate remedial measures;
(k)
Ensure in the legislation and in practice that no one will be expelled, returned or
extradited to a State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he/she would be in
danger of being subjected to torture;
(l)
Consider making the declarations under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention;
(m)
Provide data in the next periodic report, disaggregated, inter alia, by age, gender,
ethnicity and geography, on civil and military places of detention as well as on juvenile detention
centres and other institutions where individuals may be vulnerable to torture or ill-treatment