CAT/C/POL/CO/7 (c) Encourage victims to report cases of violence to the authorities; and ensure that all allegations of violence against women, including domestic and sexual violence, are registered by the police and are promptly, impartially and effectively investigated; (d) Ensure that all victims of gender-based and domestic violence benefit from protection, including restraining orders, and have access to medical, social and legal services, including counselling, redress and rehabilitation, to safe and adequately funded government-run shelters throughout the country and to assistance in finding other accommodation; (e) Consider decriminalizing abortion and issue guidelines on how to proceed with legal abortion, being mindful of the possible severe physical and mental consequences of denial, including after conscience-based refusals by doctors to perform abortions, and without requirements not specified in law; ensure that medical boards issue a decision within 10 days; ensure the provision of post-abortion health care for women, irrespective of whether they have undergone an illegal or legal abortion; and ensure that neither patients nor their doctors face criminal sanctions or other threats for seeking or providing such care. Situation of vulnerable persons and hate crime 35. The Committee is concerned: (a) That persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities have been placed in psychiatric hospitals and other public care institutions and have been detained there for prolonged periods, including periods of up to 42 and 49 years, or for more than 10 years for relatively small misdemeanours for which the prison sentence would have been much shorter for the same offence; and that such persons are often arbitrarily deprived of legal capacity and have often been placed and received treatment in the above-mentioned institutions without their consent, in the absence of appropriate safeguards; (b) That women and girls with intellectual disabilities have been subjected to forced and coerced sterilizations, performed without their free and informed consent, both by institutions and at the request of their relatives; (c) That persons with psychosocial disabilities who have completed a prison sentence may be placed in the National Centre for the Prevention of Antisocial Behaviour following an application from the director of the penitentiary facility concerned, and could thus undergo a period of detention that could constitute double punishment for the same act and that could be continued indefinitely; (d) About incidents of physical assault and hate speech against migrants from Africa, Asia and Arab countries and against Roma and Ukrainians, while acknowledging the State party’s statement that all hate crimes are of “particular interest” to the Office of the Prosecutor General and the police; and that cases of hate crime are substantially underreported due to a lack of confidence in the police, according to a recent survey report on the nature and scale of unreported hate crime produced by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights; and that violent incidents against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons continue to be reported but are not adequately investigated and prosecuted; (e) About the existing flaws in rules concerning mechanical restraints and seclusion that do not apply to chemical restraints; and that these rules do not allow for continuous, direct and personal supervision of an immobilized patient by a nearby member of health-care staff. 36. The State party should: (a) Ensure that persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities are not deprived of their legal capacity unless this is done on a legal basis, with a careful independent mental evaluation procedure, access to assisted decision-making and the possibility of judicial review, and that such persons are not placed in and do not 13