(d)The fact that remand prisoners and those serving life sentences cannot work and are left idle without adequate activities; (e)The occurrence of inter-prisoner violence and the lack of statistical data that may provide a breakdown by relevant indicators to facilitate determination of the root causes and the design of strategies to prevent and reduce such occurrences; (f)Medical consultations may not always be confidential and the decision to resort to restraints is not always covered by the law or regularly reviewed; (g)The current system under which inmates are required to cover a portion of the expenses related to their imprisonment; (h)The findings of the investigations into the excessive use of force by the police following the demonstrations in Prague during the September 2000 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Meeting, according to which only one case qualified as a criminal offence; (i)The lack of complete information from the State party on redress and compensation provided to victims of acts of torture, or to their families; (j)The amendments to the law on the right to asylum which amplified the grounds for rejecting asylum requests and allows for the detention of persons in the process of being removed to be held in aliens’ detention centres for a period of up to 180 days; as well as the restrictive nature of the conditions in these centres which are comparable to those in prisons; (k)Allegations regarding some incidents of uninformed and involuntary sterilizations of Roma women, as well as the Government’s inability to investigate due to insufficient identification of the individual complainants. D. Recommendations 87. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Exert additional efforts to combat racial intolerance and xenophobia and ensure that the comprehensive antidiscrimination legislation being discussed include all relevant grounds covered by the Convention; (b) Take measures to establish an effective, reliable and independent complaint system to undertake prompt and impartial investigations into all allegations of ill treatment or torture by the police or other public officials, including allegations of racially motivated violence by non-State actors, in particular any that have resulted in deaths, and to punish the offenders; (c) Strengthen existing efforts to reduce occurrences of ill-treatment by the police and other public officials, including those which are ethnically motivated, and, while ensuring protection of an individual’s privacy, devise modalities of collecting data and monitoring the occurrence of such acts in order to address the issue more effectively; (d) Strengthen safeguards provided in the Code of Criminal Procedure against ill-treatment and torture, and ensure that, in law as well as in practice, all persons deprived of their liberty be guaranteed, and systematically informed of, their right to a lawyer and to notify their next of kin; (e) Ensure that persons under 18 years of age are detained separately from adults in all circumstances; (f) Consider modalities of creating additional activities for all detainees with a view to encouraging them to occupy themselves, thus reducing the amount of time spent in idleness; (g) Monitor and document incidents of inter-prisoner violence with a view to revealing the root causes and designing appropriate prevention strategies. The Committee invites the State party to provide it with such data, disaggregated by the relevant factors, in its next periodic report; (h) Ensure that medical examinations are confidential and consider possibilities of transferring the medical services from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Health; (i) Reconsider the arrangements whereby prisoners are required to cover a portion of their expenses, with a view to abolishing this requirement completely; (j) Ensure that the classification of acts prohibited under the Convention is made by an impartial authority with a view to initiating appropriate proceedings and provide in its next periodic report information on criminal investigations into suspected acts of torture or other ill-treatment pursuant to article 259 (a) of the Penal Code; (k) Review the independence and effectiveness of the investigations into complaints of excessive use of force in connection with the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Meeting demonstrations of September 2000, with a view to bringing those responsible to justice and providing compensation to the victims; (l) Include in its next periodic report information on compensation provided for victims or their families in accordance with article 14 of the Convention; (m) Review the strict regime of detention for illegal immigrants with a view to its repeal and ensure that all children held in these detention centres are removed with their parents to family reception centres; (n) Investigate claims of involuntary sterilizations, using medical and personnel records, and urge the complainants, to