subordinated units should provide the visit teams of the Field regarding
prevention of torture with all requested documents regarding psychological
assistance to persons deprived from freedom, which are held by nongovernmental organizations who have partnerships with the General
Inspectorate for Immigration. In this context, it was mentioned that the visit teams
of the Field regarding prevention of torture, in turn, have the legal obligation to keep
the confidentiality of personal data, which they become aware of during the exercise
of their attributions to monitor detention places. Likewise, the following mentions
were made:
1. The People’s Advocate Institution, through the Field regarding prevention
of torture in detention places, fulfils the specific powers of National Torture
Prevention Mechanism in detention places, in the meaning of the Optional Protocol
adopted in New York on December 18, 2002, to the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted on December
10, 1984 in New York, ratified by Law no. 109/2009 (based on art. 2 par. (2) of Law
no. 35/1997 on the organization and operation of the People’s Advocate Institution,
republished).
2. Based on art. 20 letters a)-e) of the Optional Protocol adopted in New York
on December 18, 2002, in order to allow national prevention mechanisms to fulfil
their attributions, the state parties to this protocol agree to provide them with:
a) access to all information regarding the number of persons deprived from
freedom in detention places in the meaning of art. 4, as well as the number of these
places and their location;
b) access to all information regarding the treatment applied to such persons, as
well as detention conditions;
c) access to all detention places and their facilities and arrangements;
d) the possibility to meet with persons deprived from freedom, with no
witnesses, either personally or with an interpreter, if required, as well as any other
person that may provide relevant information, according to the national prevention
mechanism;
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