has been mandated to devise strategies and plans to modernize mechanisms to accomplish the goal of combating torture. A new Reform and Rehabilitation Centre was built in Al-Muqar to address the problem of overcrowding; construction of more new centres is being considered. NCHR in order to study proposed amendments to the Law on Correction and Rehabilitation Centres and the Criminal Procedure Code, which introduce alternative sanctions. Measures were taken to improve the conditions in GID detention. Inmates working in prisons have been included in social security programmes. (r) Pre-trial and convicted prisoners be strictly separated The Government informed the Special Rapporteur that Correction and rehabilitation centres operate on a system based on separation of convicted persons from persons awaiting trial. Two new prisons were opened in 2008. According to the Ministry of Interior’s PSD, on 7 April 2008, authorities began to separate pre-trial and administrative detainees from convicted prisoners; Qafqafa, Swaqa and Muwaqqar prisons seem to be intended exclusively for convicted prisoners. Non-governmental sources: Pretrial and convicted prisoners are in fact separated. Convicts are further segregated according to age, health, crime, and general behaviour. Under article 3(d) of the 2007 Law on the Correction and Rehabilitation Centres, the classification is to be made by a psychiatrist, a general doctor and a social worker. (s) The Criminal Procedure Code be Non-governmental sources: A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 92 for execution of the judgement)