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35.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 31 May 2014, follow-up
information in response to the Committee’s recommendations related to (a) ensuring or
strengthening the right of access to a lawyer for persons in police custody, (b) conducting,
prompt, impartial and effective investigations, and (c) statistics on prosecuting suspects and
sanctioning perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 10, 23, and
30 of the present concluding observations. In addition, the Committee requests follow-up
information on detention of asylum seekers and foreigners based on migration law and
forced internment in mental health care, including “providing remedies and redress to the
victims”, as contained in paragraphs 14-17 and 21 of the present concluding observations.
36.
The State party is invited to submit its next report which should cover all parts of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, which will be the seventh periodic report, by 31 May 2017.
To that purpose, the Committee will, in due course, submit to the State party a list of issues
prior to reporting, considering that the State party has accepted to report to the Committee
under the optional reporting procedure.
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