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(h)
Undertake all necessary measures to guarantee to any person deprived of his
or her liberty the right of defence and, consequently, the right to be assisted by a lawyer, if
necessary at the State’s expense;
(i)
Take urgent measures to improve conditions of detention in police stations
and prisons. It should, moreover, increase its efforts to remedy prison overcrowding and
establish a systematic and independent system to monitor the treatment in practice of
persons arrested, detained or imprisoned. In this connection, the State party should
consider signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention;
(j)
Reinforce human rights education and promotion activities in general, and
regarding the prohibition of torture in particular, for law enforcement officials and
medical personnel, and introduce training in these subjects in official education
programmes;
(k)
Take measures to regulate and institutionalize the right of victims of torture
to fair and adequate compensation, and to establish programmes for their physical and
mental rehabilitation;
(l)
Ensure that the reported practice of unlawful trafficking of persons is
suppressed;
(m)
Provide data on: (a) the number of persons held in prisons and places of
detention, disaggregated by age, gender, ethnicity, geography and type of crime; (b) the
number, types and results of cases, both disciplinary and criminal, of police and other law
enforcement personnel accused of torture and related offences;
(n)
Ensure the wide distribution of these conclusions and recommendations
throughout Cambodia, in all the major languages.
8.
The Committee requests the State party to provide responses to the questions asked by its
members and to the issues raised in the present provisional conclusions and recommendations
by 31 August 2003.
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