A/HRC/7/3/Add.2 page 41 of the Council of Europe’s Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT) that noncustodial measures are not sufficiently used at the pre- and post-trial stages. 2 Impunity 170. Recommendation (a) stated: The highest authorities, particularly those responsible for law enforcement activities, declare unambiguously that the culture of impunity must end and that torture and ill-treatment by public officials will not be tolerated and will be subject to prosecution; 171. The Government reported that it continues to inform, through the media and relevant websites (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, www.police.ge, and the Office of the Prosecutor General of Georgia, www.psg.gov.ge), any prosecutions of public officials in relation with allegations of torture and ill-treatment. The Interagency Coordination Council for Carrying out Measures against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is currently working on the elaboration of the Draft Action Plan on Fight against Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment for Years 2008-2009. Meetings of the council, held in September 2007, have been devoted to the discussion of the drafts respectively. The draft explicitly sets out as a priority the fight against impunity and the implementation of the zero tolerance policy towards torture, other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. These objectives require several activities, including public support by high-level government officials to the zero tolerance policy towards acts of torture and ill-treatment. 172. Recommendation (b) 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; 173. According to non-governmental sources, there are no provisions in the current legislation obliging judges and prosecutors to ask persons brought from custody how they have been treated though the judge and the prosecutor have the right to order an independent medical examination. 174. Please see A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, paras. 205-209, for information provided by the Government. 175. Recommendation (c) 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; 176. According to non-governmental sources, an independent body which has the authority to conduct investigations into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment does 2 Report to the Georgian Government on the visit to Georgia carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 21 March to 2 April 2007, 25 October 2007, CPT/Inf (2007)42.