A/HRC/7/3/Add.2 page 146 730. The Government provided previously reported information (e.g. A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, paras. 661, and E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.2, para. 335). 731. Recommendation (n) stated: In view of the numerous complaints concerning detainees' lack of access to counsel, of the failure of prosecutors and judges to investigate meaningfully serious allegations of human rights violations and of the procedural anomalies that are alleged to exist in the State Security Courts, as well as questions relating to their composition, the Government should give serious consideration to extending an invitation to the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. 732. The Government provided previously reported information (e.g. A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, paras. 664, and E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.2, para. 337), and reiterated that the recommendation is no longer valid. 733. Recommendation (o) stated: Similarly, in view of the frequent detention of individuals under the Anti-Terror Law, seemingly for exercising their right to freedom of opinion and expression and of association, the Government may also wish to give serious consideration to extending an invitation to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. 734. The Government provided previously reported information (e.g. A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, paras. 667, and E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.2, para. 339). Uzbekistan Follow-up to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur in the report of his visit to Uzbekistan in November and December 2002 (E/CN.4/2003/68/Add.2, para. 70). 735. By letter dated 3 July 2007, the Government of Uzbekistan posed the following questions to the Special Rapporteur: on the basis of what criteria is the nature of torture determined, including use of such terms as widespread, systematic and others?; in what international documents are criteria for the determination of the nature of torture foreseen?; and which international mechanism or procedure is mandated to determine the nature of torture? For example, is it the Committee Against Torture , the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, or any other body? 736. By letter dated 2 August 2007, the Special Rapporteur responded that at present there is no international instrument, nor international or regional court decision, which elaborates on what criteria is needed to characterize torture as widespread, systematic, or otherwise. Nevertheless the characterization of this practice is helpful in understanding any pattern, extent and severity of it, and consequently, the appropriate measures needed to address them. In general, international human rights treaties foresee that treaty-bodies established pursuant to them, e.g. the Committee against Torture, and the Human Rights Committee, are mandated to interpret provisions contained therein.