A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 165 Para 135. Country Date 06/08/07 Type JUA Mandate WGAD; LIB; TOR Allegations transmitted Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which has been ratified by Liberia. Moreover, the Regulations, which are subordinate legislation, are contrary to provisions of a variety of national legislation, including the Judiciary Law, the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Law. G. M., a 15-year-old Sierra Leonean national, currently detained at Robertsport detention facility, Grand Cape Mount county. G.M. was arrested on 15 June 2007 and charged with statutory (firstdegree) rape. Following a hearing at the Robertsport city magistrate’s court on 20 June 2007, he was remanded in pre-trial detention at the Robertsport facility, which is not a national prison and thus not run by correctional services personnel from the Ministry of Justice. The Superintendent is a retiree who serves in his capacity as volunteer. Since there has been no public defence counsel appointed to the Grand Cape Mount county after the re-opening of the court in 2006, G.M. has not had access to a lawyer since his arrest. According to article 4.1 of the Act “On Adopting a New Penal Law”, the age of criminal responsibility in Liberia is 16 years. All criminal cases involving juveniles below the age of 16 may only be handled as cases of juvenile delinquency as provided by the Liberian Juvenile Court Procedural Code. Furthermore, article 11.42 of the Code stipulates that “no juvenile under the age of 16 years shall be detained or placed in any prison, jail, lockup or a police station except for good cause upon an order of the judge of a juvenile court in which the reasons therefore Government response