Situation during visit (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) Steps taken in previous years (to be found in A/HRC/7/3/Add.2) Information received on steps taken since December 2007/current situation On paper, a file regarding each detainee informed about the time of arrival, state of health, details, reason for detention, authority which issued the arrest warrant or verdict, and all details relating to the person’s time at the centre. Upon arrival, detainees were to undergo a medical check-up and the police doctor should prepare a medical report, indicating whether there were any traces of torture. If that was the case, a forensic report had to be prepared and judicial authorities were to be notified. However, this process was not effective in practice. • Non-governmental sources: Not all the relevant information is included in registers (state of health, visit time for the arrested person etc). A confession could be accepted as the only evidence in a case if the court was convinced that it was made voluntarily and willingly (CCP article 159); in practice, confessions obtained under torture were inadmissible in court. • Non-governmental sources: one register at the GID contains information about a detainee’s name, nationality and charge, if any. Another register records visitors, and a third register contains medical records. Outside of the GID, detainees do not receive a standard medical examination In regular prisons, registers generally contain the name of the detainee or prisoner, the nationality and charge, if any; the doctors have medical files of those seeking and receiving medical care, although no entry exam is performed 2006: Court of Cassation ruling No. 1513/2003 of 4 May 2006: “statements obtained as a result of violence and coercion cannot be relied upon to convict a defendant”. • • Non-governmental sources: There are cases where “confessions” allegedly extracted under torture or other forms of duress continue to be admitted as evidence, especially by the State Security Court The Court of Cassation has issued several rulings with regard to confessions taken A/HRC/10/44/Add.5 page 56 Recommendation (A/HRC/4/33/Add.3) with the interrogators of investigators should be permitted (k) The maintenance of custody registers be scrupulously ensured, including recording of the time and place of arrest, the identity of the personnel, the actual place of detention, the state of health upon arrival of the person at the detention centre, the time at which the family and a lawyer were contacted and visited the detainee, and information on compulsory medical examinations upon being brought to a detention centre and upon transfer (l) Confessions made by persons in custody without the presence of a lawyer and that are not confirmed before a judge shall not be admissible as evidence against the persons who made the confession.