A/HRC/7/3/Add.2 page 81 398. Recommendation (f) stated: Judges and prosecutors routinely ask persons brought from police custody how they have been treated and, even in the absence of a formal complaint from the defendant, order an independent medical examination; 399. Recommendation (g) stated: All allegations of torture and ill-treatment be promptly and thoroughly investigated by an independent authority with no connection to that investigating or prosecuting the case against the alleged victim. In the opinion of Special Rapporteur, the NHRCM could be entrusted with this task; 400. Recommendation (h) stated: Any public official indicted for abuse or torture, including prosecutors and judges implicated in colluding in torture or ignoring evidence, be immediately suspended from duty pending trial, and prosecuted; 401. Recommendation (i) stated: Victims of torture and ill-treatment receive substantial compensation and adequate medical treatment and rehabilitation; 402. Recommendation (j) stated: The declaration be made with respect to article 22 of the Convention recognizing the competence of the Committee against Torture to receive and consider communications from individuals who claim to be victims of a violation of the provisions of the Convention; 403. Recommendation (k) stated: The Criminal Procedure Code be amended to ensure that it shall not be the general rule that persons awaiting trial are detained in custody, particularly for non-violent, minor or less serious offences, and that the use of non-custodial measures, such as bail and recognizance, are increased. The maximum period of pre-trial detention shall be reduced, especially for persons under 18. Pre-trial detention shall be authorized by a judge only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time; 404. Recommendation (l) stated: The current special isolation regime for longterm prisoners be ended and that it ensured that ensuring that all persons deprived of their liberty are detained strictly in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, with the aim of rehabilitation and resocialization, as envisaged by article 10 of the Covenant; 405. Recommendation (m) stated: Death row prisoners be detained strictly in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, and in particular they should not be handcuffed and shackled in detention; 406. Recommendation (n) stated: A moratorium on the death penalty be imposed, with a view to its abolition, and that the Government ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the Covenant, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; 407. Recommendation (o) stated: It ratifies the Optional Protocol to the Convention and that a truly independent monitoring mechanism be established, to visit all places where persons are deprived of their liberty throughout the country.