CAT/OP/MRT/2
United Nations
Optional Protocol to the
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
24 September 2018
English
Original: French
Arabic, English, French and
Spanish only
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Visit to Mauritania from 24 to 28 October 2016:
comments and recommendations addressed to the
national preventive mechanism
Report of the Subcommittee*, **
* In accordance with article 16 (1) of the Optional Protocol, the present report was transmitted
confidentially to the national preventive mechanism on 29 January 2018. On 22 May 2018, the
national preventive mechanism requested the Subcommittee to publish the report, in accordance with
article 16 (2) of the Optional Protocol.
** The annex is being circulated in the language of submission only.
GE.18-15827 (E)
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