CAT/C/4/Rev.3 page 9 • Remedies available to individuals who claim to have been victims of acts of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; • Remedies available to the complainant in case the competent authorities refuse to investigate his/her case; • Mechanisms for the protection of the complainants and the witnesses against any kind of intimidation or ill-treatment; • Statistical data disaggregated, inter alia, by sex, age, crime and geographical location on the number of complaints of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment submitted to the domestic authorities and the results of the investigations. An indication should also be provided of the services to which the persons accused of having committed torture and/or other forms of ill-treatment belong; • Information on the access of any complainant to independent and impartial judicial remedy, including information on any discriminatory barriers to the equal status of all persons before the law, and any rules or practices preventing harassment or retraumatization of victims; • Information on any officers within police forces and prosecutorial or other relevant offices specifically trained to handle cases of alleged torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or violence against women and ethnic, religious or other minorities; • Information on the effectiveness of any such measures. Article 14 23. This article deals with the right of victims of torture to redress, fair and adequate compensation and rehabilitation. The report should contain information on: • The procedures in place for obtaining compensation for victims of torture and their families and whether these procedures are codified or in any way formalized; • Whether the State is legally responsible for the offender’s conduct and, therefore, obliged to compensate the victim; • Statistical data or, at least, examples of decisions by the competent authorities ordering compensation and indications as to whether such decisions were implemented, including any information about the nature of the torture, the status and identification of the victim and the amount of compensation or other redress provided;

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