- The government should repeal all provisions on
impunities of law enforcement agencies and securities
agencies for committing torture.
- Take urgent steps to ensure access to detainees,
especially during periods of custodial interrogation.
Relatives, doctors and lawyers should have access to
detainees without delay and regularly thereafter.
- Witnesses including family members and human
rights defenders should be protected against possible
reprisal by the perpetrators of torture or other human
rights violations.
- Interrogation should take place only at official centres
and any evidence obtained from a detainee in an
unofficial place of detention and not confirmed by the
detainee during interrogation at official locations
should not be admitted as evidence in court against
the detainee;32
- The detainee should have the right to have a lawyer
present during any interrogation;
- The police officer responsible for arbitrary arrest,
detention, and torture should be accountable to the
law for his/her criminal wrongdoing in ‘like manner’ as
the citizen.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture, 2001, UN Doc.A/56/156, July 2001,
para 39.