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(f) Medical consultations may not always be confidential and the decision to resort to
restraints is not always covered by the law or regularly reviewed;
(g) The current system under which inmates are required to cover a portion of the expenses
related to their imprisonment;
(h) The findings of the investigations into the excessive use of force by the police following
the demonstrations in Prague during the September 2000 International Monetary Fund /World
Bank Meeting, according to which only one case qualified as a criminal offence;
(i) The lack of complete information from the State party on redress and compensation
provided to victims of acts of torture, or to their families;
(j) The amendments to the law on the right to asylum which amplified the grounds for
rejecting asylum requests and allows for the detention of persons in the process of being
removed to be held in aliens’ detention centres for a period of up to 180 days; as well as the
restrictive nature of the conditions in these centres which are comparable to those in prisons;
(k) Allegations regarding some incidents of uninformed and involuntary sterilizations of
Roma women, as well as the government’s inability to investigate due to insufficient
identification of the individual complainants.
D.
6.
Recommendations
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Exert additional efforts to combat racial intolerance and xenophobia and ensure that the
comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation being discussed include all relevant grounds
covered by the Convention;
(b) Take measures to establish an effective, reliable and independent complaint system to
undertake prompt and impartial investigations into all allegations of ill-treatment or torture by
the police or other public officials, including allegations of racially motivated violence by nonState actors, in particular any that have resulted in deaths, and to punish the offenders;
(c) Strengthen existing efforts to reduce occurrences of ill-treatment by the police and other
public officials, including those which are ethnically motivated, and, while ensuring protection
of an individual’s privacy, devise modalities of collecting data and monitoring the occurrence of
such acts in order to address the issue more effectively;
(d) Strengthen safeguards provided in the Code of Criminal Procedure against ill-treatment
and torture, and ensure that, in law as well as in practice, all persons deprived of their liberty be
guaranteed, and systematically informed of, their right to a lawyer and to notify their next of kin;
(e) Ensure that persons under 18 years of age are detained separately from adults in all
circumstances;
(f) Consider modalities of creating additional activities for all detainees with a view to
encouraging them to occupy themselves, thus reducing the amount of time spent in idleness;