Recommendation (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) m) The OPCAT should be ratified, and a truly independent monitoring mechanism be established – where the members of the visiting commissions would be appointed for a fixed period and not subject to dismissal – to visit all places where persons are deprived of their liberty throughout the country. n) Systematic training programmes and awarenessraising campaigns on the principles of the CAT for the public at large, public security personnel, legal professionals and the judiciary. Steps taken in previous years Situation in during visit in 2005 (See A/HRC/4/33/Add.2, A/HRC/7/3/Add.2, (See E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 and A/HRC/16/52/Add.2) lawyers have been targeted, detained and convicted (e.g. for ‗tax evasion‘). 19 A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 Non-governmental sources: It is reported that the previously conducted ‗in-house‘ education campaigns have not yielded appreciable results in the past. China has not fulfilled the obligation to widely educate its employees and citizens about human rights and the prohibition of torture. It has furthermore blocked access of civil society actors to information and human rights training courses. Websites reporting on human rights violations are reportedly blocked, censored or closed down by the authorities. Government: According to the NHRA, the economic o) Victims of torture and ill- The Law on State compensation, legal remedies and rehabilitation to treatment should receive Compensation guaranteed the substantial compensation right to compensation for losses victims shall be improved. proportionate to the gravity suffered through infringements Non-governmental sources: It is reported that most of the physical and mental of civil rights by any State victims of torture have not received any harm suffered, and adequate organ or functionary, but it compensation or only small amounts. medical treatment and contained an exception clause rehabilitation. for criminal cases where confessions were ―intentionally fabricated‖ or other ―evidence of guilt‖ was falsified. p) Death row prisoners At the Beijing Municipality Non-governmental sources: Reportedly, death row Information received in the reporting period