118.
Although the confined may be detained at a detention room of a
police station, correctional institution, or house of detention by a judge in
accordance with Article 61 Paragraph 3 of the Court Organization Act and
Article 7 Paragraph 2 of the Rules for Trials to Maintain the Order of Court,
Etc., detailed standards thereof do not exist. Hence, depending on the type
of a detention facility, the treatment of the confined may change and their
right to meet their families can be limited unnecessarily since they are treated
as unconvicted prisoners.
Questions
119.
Please propose measures to establish and revise acts that stipulate
detailed enforcement and procedure of court-ordered confinement.
120.
Please provide concrete improvement measures, such as preparing a
manual for the protection of fundamental rights of prisoners at detention
centers under court-ordered confinement.
Issue 3: Improvement of the Operation of Video Recording Devices
Inside Vehicles to Transport Suspects
Status
121.
Among vehicles used by the Korean National Police Agency
(“KNPA”), vehicles to transport suspects are space where physical freedom
of arrested suspects is restricted, which raises concern that such vehicles can
be a blind spot in terms of additional human rights violations by the police.
On September 8, 2011, the NHRCK asked the prosecution to investigate
torture practices committed inside transport vehicles of the KNPA after
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