CAT/C/SAU/CO/2
(b)
Adopt or amend labour legislation that governs domestic work and
provides legal protection to migrant domestic workers against exploitation, torture,
ill-treatment and trafficking;
(c)
Provide data on complaints of torture and ill-treatment of migrant
workers and victims of trafficking filed with the authorities, investigations into such
allegations, remedies to victims and the punishment imposed on those responsible,
where applicable;
(d)
Provide shelters, psychosocial support, legal aid and other reparative
measures to migrant workers who are victims of torture and ill-treatment, including
trafficking.
Death penalty
42.
The Committee is deeply concerned about the continued existence of the death
penalty, the growing number of executions carried out in the State party and the failure of
the State party to provide data requested by the Committee on the number of persons
executed or on death row as well as, inter alia, the gender, age, nationality and other
relevant demographics of the persons affected, and for what specific offences (art. 16).
43.
The Committee encourages the State party to establish a moratorium on
executions, to commute all existing death sentences, to become a party to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and, in particular, its Second
Optional Protocol aimed at the abolition of the death penalty. The Committee calls
upon the State party to provide disaggregated data on the number of individuals
currently on death row, the number executed, detailing the offences and whether any
minors or mentally disabled have been sentenced to death and/or executed, and the
other data requested.
Registers
44.
While noting the information provided by the State party that all prisons and
detention centres maintain registers (see CAT/C/SAU/Q/2/Add.2, paras. 12-13), the
Committee is concerned about the reported absence of information on interrogations (dates
and interrogating authority) in such registers and the absence of medical records. It is
further concerned at reports that lawyers of detained persons do not have access to the
registers at all times (art. 11).
45.
The State party should ensure the maintenance of registers containing full and
detailed information, including on interrogations and incidents in detention, and
medical records for each detainee. The State party should also ensure protection of
the personal data of persons deprived of their liberty and respect for medical
confidentiality. The State party should further ensure that registers are accessible to
the lawyers of detained persons at any time, with their consent.
Refugees and non-refoulement
46.
The Committee appreciates the measures taken by the State party to provide
assistance to refugees from neighbouring States, but remains concerned about the absence
of national legislation and procedures explicitly regulating expulsion, refoulement and
extradition that are consistent with the requirements of article 3 of the Convention. The
Committee is also concerned about the absence of specific mechanisms for screening and
affording protection to minors at risk of being trafficked. The Committee also regrets the
lack of information on the number of cases in which deportation, extradition and expulsion
were carried out during the reporting period and the number of instances in which it did not
expel persons at risk of being tortured in the country of return. The Committee further notes
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