D. Recommendations 101. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Take all appropriate measures to prevent acts of ill-treatment by members of the police and ensure that all allegations of ill-treatment are investigated promptly and impartially; (b) Improve conditions in places of deprivation of liberty, especially police stations and short-term detention isolators, and ensure that they conform to international standards; (c) Guarantee that detainees in police custody have the right to contact their families and have access to a medical doctor of their choice and to legal counsel from the outset of their deprivation of liberty; (d) Take all appropriate steps to shorten the length of legal proceedings and the current pre-trial detention period; (e) Introduce legally enforceable time limits for the detention of rejected asylum-seekers who are under expulsion orders. In this respect, the State party is invited to provide statistics, disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, country of origin and age, relating to persons awaiting expulsion; (f) Continue to take measures to address overcrowding in prisons and other places of detention; (g) Provide in the next periodic report detailed statistical data, disaggregated by age, gender and country of origin, on complaints related to torture and other ill-treatment allegedly committed by members of the police forces, as well as related investigations, prosecutions, and penal and disciplinary sentences; (h) Ensure that the draft code of conduct for police interrogation (“Police Ethics Code”) is speedily adopted; (i) Take measures to ensure that in all circumstances the crime of torture is explicitly included among the crimes for which article 34 of the Criminal Law excludes the defence of superior orders; (j) Continue to facilitate the integration and naturalization of “non-citizens”; (k) Consider making the declarations under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention; (l) Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention. 102. The Committee also recommends that the State party disseminate widely the Committee’s conclusions and recommendations, in all appropriate languages, through official web sites, the media and non-governmental organizations. 103. The Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year, information on its response to the Committee’s recommendations contained in paragraph 101 (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) above. 104. The State party is invited to submit its next periodic report, which will be considered as the second, by 13 May 2005. lithuania* 105.The Committee considered the initial report of Lithuania (CAT/C/37/Add.5) at its 584th and 587th meetings, held on 17 and 19 November 2003 (CAT/C/SR.584 and 587), and adopted the following conclusions and recommendations. A. Introduction 106.The Committee welcomes the initial report of Lithuania and the additional information provided by the high-level delegation. 107.The report, which mainly addresses legal provisions and lacks detailed information on the practical implementation of the Convention and statistical data, does not fully conform to the reporting guidelines. B. Positive aspects 108.The Committee welcomes the ongoing efforts by the State party to reform its legal system and revise its legislation in order to safeguard fundamental human rights, including the right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including: (a)The adoption of a new Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure which prohibit the use of violence, intimidation, degrading treatment or treatment impairing a person’s health, and a Code of Enforcement of Punishments, all of which entered into force on 1 May 2003; (b)The promulgation of Order 96 (8 June 2001) of the Prosecutor General on Control in Ensuring Protection of the Detained and Arrested Persons Against Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (c)The adoption of the Law on Compensation of Damage Resulting from Unlawful Actions of Institutions of Public Authority on 21 May 2002;