A/69/44 welcome further inspections, the Committee remains concerned at information it has received indicating the virtual absence of independent and regular monitoring of the places of detention. The Committee is further concerned at the information it has received about measures taken by the State party that have impeded the work of numerous independent human rights organizations which previously operated in the State party. The Committee is alarmed by the announcement in April 2013 by the International Committee of the Red Cross that it was ceasing its visits to places of detention in the State party on the grounds that it had been unable to follow its working procedures, rendering such visits “pointless” (arts. 2, 11, 12 and 13). The Committee urges the State party to establish a national system that independently, effectively and regularly monitors and inspects all places of detention without prior notice, reports publicly on its findings, and raises with the authorities detention conditions or conduct in places of detention amounting to torture or illtreatment. The State party should amend its legislation, regulations and policies as necessary to facilitate the reopening, granting of access to and full functioning of independent national and international human rights and humanitarian organizations in the State party. The State party should ensure that representatives of such organizations are able to carry out independent, unannounced monitoring of all places of deprivation of liberty, in accordance with their standard operating procedures. Conditions of detention (19) While the Committee appreciates the information from the State party regarding the decrease in the number of prisoners in the correctional institutions of the State party, it is concerned at the numerous reports of abuses in custody and deaths in detention, some of which are alleged to have followed torture or ill-treatment. The Committee also remains concerned regarding the conditions in the Jaslyk detention facility (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party should improve conditions of detention, including in the Jaslyk detention facility. The State party should take prompt measures to ensure that all instances of death in custody are promptly investigated and those responsible for any deaths resulting from torture, illtreatment or any other illegal actions are prosecuted. Redress for victims of torture (20) The Committee is concerned that, according to the information from the State party, it has not awarded or provided any compensation to victims of torture in the reporting period, despite provisions providing for the rights of victims to material and moral rehabilitation in legislation. The Committee is further concerned at the lack of concrete examples of cases in which individual victims of torture received medical or psychosocial rehabilitation (art. 14). The State party should ensure that victims of torture obtain redress and have an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including the means for as full a rehabilitation as possible. The Committee draws the attention of the State party to its general comment No. 3 (2012), which explains the content and scope of the obligations of States parties to provide full redress to victims of torture and recommends amending the domestic legislation accordingly. Independence of the judiciary (21) The Committee remains concerned that the judiciary remains weak, inefficient and influenced by the executive, that judges lack security of tenure and that lower-level appointments are made by the executive, which reappoints judges every five years (arts. 2, 12 and 13). GE.14-12596 87