CAT/OP/PRT/1
Contents
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I.
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................
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II.
Implementation of the Optional Protocol: the national preventive mechanism ............................
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III.
Overarching issues ........................................................................................................................
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A.
Institutional framework.........................................................................................................
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B.
Complaints mechanisms .......................................................................................................
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Prevention of torture and ill-treatment ..........................................................................................
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A.
Police ....................................................................................................................................
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B.
Prisons ..................................................................................................................................
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C.
Psychiatric care .....................................................................................................................
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Police practice and procedure........................................................................................................
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A.
Fundamental safeguards during the initial stage of detention ...............................................
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B.
Material conditions of detention at police stations ...............................................................
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Prisons ...........................................................................................................................................
12
A.
Material conditions of detention in prisons...........................................................................
12
B.
Discipline ..............................................................................................................................
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Health care ....................................................................................................................................
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A.
Generic observations and concerns .......................................................................................
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B.
Medical screening and examination......................................................................................
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C.
Prisons ..................................................................................................................................
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D.
Forensic units ........................................................................................................................
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E.
Psychiatric units ....................................................................................................................
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Next steps ......................................................................................................................................
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I.
List of places of deprivation of liberty visited by the Subcommittee ............................................
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II
Places of deprivation of liberty visited jointly by the national preventive mechanism
and the Subcommittee ...................................................................................................................
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List of government officials and other persons with whom the Subcommittee met .....................
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VII.
VIII.
Annexes
III
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