CAT/C/SVN/CO/3
(e)
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, on 21 May 2004.
5.
The Committee notes the State party’s ongoing efforts to revise its legislation in
areas of relevance to the Convention, including:
(a)
Introduction of article 265 defining and criminalizing torture and the
amendments increasing the maximum punishment for trafficking in human beings in the
Penal Code, in 2008;
(b)
Amendments to the Police Act providing detainees with access to a doctor, in
2005;
(c)
Amendments in the Criminal Procedure Act and Prosecutor’s Act, in 2007,
establishing Specialized Departments of the Group of State Prosecutors for prosecution of
crimes committed by the police, military police or persons seconded to a military or similar
mission abroad;
(d)
Adoption of the Patients’ Rights Act, in 2008, which regulates the complaint
procedure in case of violations of rights of patients, including those in mental health
institutions;
(e)
Adoption of the Mental Health Act, in 2008, which stipulates counselling and
protection of rights in the area of mental health, including procedures for detention of
people with mental health problems;
(f)
Adoption of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, in 2008;
(g)
Adoption of the Act amending the Act regulating the Legal Status of Citizens
of Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia living in Slovenia, in 2010;
(h)
Adoption of the Act on the Protection of Right to Trial without Undue Delay,
in 2006 and amendments thereto in 2009.
6.
The Committee also welcomes the efforts being made by the State party to improve
its policies and procedures in order to ensure greater protection of human rights and give
effect to the Convention, including:
(a)
prison”;
Introduction of an alternative form of penal sanction referred to as “weekend
(b)
Publication of a brochure on the “Notice of Rights to the Person Who Has
Been Arrested” in 2009;
(c)
Adoption of a resolution on the prevention of domestic violence for the
period of 2009–2014.
C.
Principal subjects of concern and recommendations
Definition and offence of torture
7.
While welcoming the introduction of a new provision defining and criminalizing
torture which contains all the elements specified in article 1 of the Convention, the
Committee remains concerned that the crime of torture is subject to statute of limitation
(arts. 1 and 4).
The Committee urges the State party to amend article 90 of its Penal Code with a view
to abolishing the statute of limitation for the crime of torture. The State party should
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