Recommendation (E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6) 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) of such personnel to inflict torture and other illtreatment, including through the use of inmates to torture individuals in detention and the use of quasigovernmental personnel to beat up and intimidate human rights activists outside of detention. 2) Government: In 2006, the Ministry of Justice issued regulations prohibiting torture and ill-treatment by specific categories of public officials, such as ―Six prohibitions for prison guards‖, ―Six prohibitions for Re-education Through Labour‖ (RTL), etc. A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 7 - In the Regulations on Case-Filing Standards in Cases of Rights Infringement through Dereliction of Duty, the Supreme People‘s Procuratorate (SPP) lists several acts amounting to the crime of coercing a confession, such as beatings, binding, prolonged use of cold, hunger, exposure or scorching to abuse detainees, severely injuring suspects or leading a suspect to commit serious self-injury or directly or indirectly ordering others to use torture for the purpose of extracting a confession. b) All allegations of torture According to Article 18 of the Government: The National Human Right Action and ill-treatment should be Criminal Procedure Law (CPL), Plan 2009-10 (NHRA) foresees the establishment and improvement of supervisory mechanisms for law promptly investigated by an the SPP is the mechanism enforcement and administration of justice by independent authority with responsible for investigating establishing responsibility and accountability no connection to the and prosecuting crimes systems. authority investigating or committed by State prosecuting the case against functionaries. The Procurators Non-governmental sources: It is reported that as of the alleged victim. are also mandated to monitor 2009, the Government rejects the release of concrete the police and prisons and data about enforcement efforts and increased exercise oversight functions. In transparency in the criminal justice system. his dual function of prosecution Reportedly, in most cases no effective investigations and monitoring the SPP is not were conducted in torture cases documented by an independent authority, as its human rights organizations. It is alleged that if primary interest is vested in investigations were initiated, they failed to meet the Information received in the reporting period