ESSEX PAPER 3: INITIAL GUIDANCE ON THE INTERPRETATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN NELSON MANDELA RULES
the death of a person in custody needs to be ‘made publicly accessible, considering that public
scrutiny outweighs the right to privacy unless otherwise justified’.505
It is also a responsibility of the prison administration to ‘systematically identify and collect the
patterns of deaths for further examination by independent bodies’.506
Special Rapporteur on Torture report 2013, A/68/295, para. 65.
505
Special Rapporteur on Torture report 2013, A/68/295, para. 65.
506
Penal Reform International and the Essex Human Rights Centre
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