237. It was reported, in particular, that during the investigation of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in March 2003, approximately 10,000 people were detained. They were held without their detention being authorized by a competent judicial body and without access to lawyers or family members, in some cases for up to two months, under emergency regulations introduced after the assassination. The reports also suggested widespread ill-treatment of detainees, sometimes amounting to torture. 238. A number of individual cases allegedly occurred both in Serbia and in Montenegro. Some of them were not linked to the investigation of the assassination of the Prime Minister. 239. The Committee took note with concern of the above information. IX. PUBLICATION OF THE SUMMARY ACCOUNT 240. At its thirty-first session, the Committee decided to invite the State party, in accordance with article 20, paragraph 5, of the Convention and rule 84 of its rules of procedure, to inform it of its observations regarding the possible publication of a summary account of the results of the inquiry in its annual report. On 1 March 2004 the State party replied that it agreed to such publication. At its thirty-second session, the Committee approved the summary account and decided to include it in the annual report. Notes 1 In its 2001 Study on Policing in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, OSCE recommended that a major and comprehensive review of detention facilities be undertaken (recommendation No. 48). 2 Petar Antic, Abuses of Roma Rights in Serbia, Belgrade, 2001. 3 This period was three days under the previous CPC. 4 OSCE, op. cit., p. 24. 5 Decree of the Government of the Republic of Serbia No. 05 broj 011-5742/74, of 23 September 1992. 6 OSCE, op. cit., pp. 22-23. 7 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 44 (A/54/44), paras. 35-52. 8 Article 65 of the Serbian Criminal Code states: “(1) A person acting in an official capacity who uses force or threats or other proscribed or impermissible means with the intent of extracting a confession or other statement from a suspect, witness, expert witness or other person shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of three months to five years. 88