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(n)
Systematic training programmes and awareness-raising campaigns should be
carried out on the principles of the Convention against Torture for the public at large,
public security personnel, legal professionals and the judiciary.
(o)
Victims of torture and ill-treatment should receive substantial compensation
proportionate to the gravity of the physical and mental harm suffered, and adequate
medical treatment and rehabilitation.
Circumstances surrounding capital punishment
(p)
Death row prisoners should not be subjected to additional punishment such
as being handcuffed and shackled.
(q)
The restoration of Supreme Court review for all death sentences should be
utilized as an opportunity to publish national statistics on the application of the death
penalty.
(r)
The scope of the death penalty should be reduced, e.g. by abolishing it for
economic and non-violent crimes.
Deprivation of liberty for political crimes
(s)
Political crimes that leave large discretion to law enforcement and
prosecution authorities such as “endangering national security”, “subverting State power”,
“undermining the unity of the country”, “supplying of State secrets to individuals abroad”,
etc. should be abolished.
(t)
All persons who have been sentenced for the peaceful exercise of freedom of
speech, assembly, association and religion, on the basis of vaguely defined political crimes,
both before and after the 1997 reform of the CL, should be released.
Forced re-education
(u)
“Re-education through Labour” and similar forms of forced re-education in
prisons, pretrial detention centres and psychiatric hospitals should be abolished.
(v)
Any decision regarding deprivation of liberty must be made by a judicial and
not administrative organ.
Follow-up
(w)
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government continue to
cooperate with relevant international organizations, including the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for assistance in the follow-up
to the above recommendations.
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