CAT/OP/KAZ/1 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Reprisals ........................................................................................................................................ 4 III. Implementation of the Optional Protocol: the national preventive mechanism ............................ 4 IV. General observations on the situation of torture and ill-treatment ................................................ 6 V. Framework for combating torture and its application ................................................................... 7 A. Safeguards ............................................................................................................................ 8 B. Authorization of detention .................................................................................................... 9 C. Detention and investigation under one ministry and frequent transfers between places of deprivation of liberty ........................................................................................................ 10 D. Complaints ............................................................................................................................ 11 E. Inspections of places of detention and investigation of allegations of torture ...................... 11 F. Lack of protection of, compensation for and rehabilitation of victims of torture ................. 12 Penitentiary system ....................................................................................................................... 12 A. Pretrial detention facilities .................................................................................................... 13 B. Prison colonies ...................................................................................................................... 15 C. Women in detention .............................................................................................................. 20 D. Children in detention ............................................................................................................ 20 Other institutions under the Subcommittee mandate ..................................................................... 20 I. List of places of deprivation of liberty visited by the Subcommittee ............................................ 22 II. Officials and other persons with whom the delegation met .......................................................... 24 VI. VII. Annexes 2

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