2.
d.
The opportunity to have private interviews with the persons deprived of their liberty
without witnesses, either personally or with a translator if deemed necessary, as well
as with any other person who the Subcommittee on Prevention believes may supply
relevant information;
e.
The liberty to choose the places it wants to visit and the persons it wants to interview.
Objection to a visit to a particular place of detention may be made only on urgent and
compelling grounds of national defence, public safety, natural disaster or serious disorder in
the place to be visited that temporarily prevent the carrying out of such a visit. The existence
of a declared state of emergency as such shall not be invoked by a State Party as a reason to
object to a visit.
Article 15
No authority or official shall order, apply, permit or tolerate any sanction against any person or
organization for having communicated to the Subcommittee on Prevention or to its delegates
any information, whether true or false, and no such person or organization shall be otherwise
prejudiced in any way.
Article 16
1.
The Subcommittee on Prevention shall communicate its recommendations and observations
confidentially to the State Party and, if relevant, to the national preventive mechanism.
2.
The Subcommittee on Prevention shall publish its report, together with any comments of the
State Party concerned, whenever requested to do so by that State Party. If the State Party
makes part of the report public, the Subcommittee on Prevention may publish the report in
whole or in part. However, no personal data shall be published without the express consent
of the person concerned.
3.
The Subcommittee on Prevention shall present a public annual report on its activities to the
Committee against Torture.
4.
If the State Party refuses to cooperate with the Subcommittee on Prevention according to
articles 12 and 14, or to take steps to improve the situation in the light of the recommendations
of the Subcommittee on Prevention, the Committee against Torture may, at the request of
the Subcommittee on Prevention, decide, by a majority of its members, after the State Party
has had an opportunity to make its views known, to make a public statement on the matter
or to publish the report of the Subcommittee on Prevention.
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