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51.
The State party should take the following measures:
(a)
Review its legislation to include explicit provisions on the right of all
victims of torture and ill-treatment to redress, including fair and adequate
compensation and rehabilitation, and to ensure that victims may, inter alia, seek and
obtain prompt, fair and adequate compensation, including in cases where the civil
liability of the State party is involved;
(b)
Provide, in practice, all victims of torture or ill-treatment, including
those who suffer from lifelong disabilities as a result of torture, with redress, including
fair and adequate compensation, and as full rehabilitation as possible;
(c)
Compile statistical data on cases in which it has provided redress to
victims of torture or ill-treatment, as well as the amount of the compensation,
disaggregated by nationality and gender.
Follow-up procedure
52.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 13 May 2017,
information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on corporal
punishment, including in the case of Ra’if Badawi, reprisals against human rights
defenders and journalists and the death penalty (see paras. 10, 12, 19 and 42 above).
In that context, the State party is invited to inform the Committee about its plans for
implementing, within the coming reporting period, some or all of the remaining
recommendations in the concluding observations.
Other issues
53.
The Committee notes with appreciation the announcement made by the
delegation during the dialogue that the State party was considering ratifying the
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and lifting its reservation under
article 20.
54.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider making the declaration
under article 22 of the Convention recognizing the competence of the Committee to
receive and consider communications from individuals subject to its jurisdiction.
55.
The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human
rights treaties to which it is not yet a party and encourages it to extend an invitation to
visit the country to the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment.
56.
The State party is requested to make publicly available and disseminate widely
the report submitted to the Committee, its replies to the list of issues prepared by the
Committee, the summary records of the dialogue and the present concluding
observations, in appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and nongovernmental organizations.
57.
The State party is invited to submit its third periodic report by 13 May 2020.
To that end, the Committee invites the State party to accept by 13 May 2017 the
simplified reporting procedure, whereby the Committee transmits to the State party a
list of issues prior to the submission of its periodic report. The State party’s replies to
that list of issues will constitute its periodic report under article 19 of the Convention.
The State party is also invited to submit its common core document in accordance
with the requirements contained in the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the
international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6).
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