guards when privacy is involved, videotaping all
interrogations, utilizing investigative procedures such as the
Istanbul Protocol of 1999, or new approaches to public
education or the protection of minors.77 The legal
environment prohibiting torture in Bangladesh should take
into account such legal innovations to expand the scope of
measures required to prevent torture.
3. Bangladesh is under the preventive obligations as per the
CAT to ensure that a victim is provided with the services and
care necessary to re-establish her situation before the
violation of the Convention was committed, taking into
consideration the specific circumstances of each case.
However, the victim receiving such restitution must not be
placed in a position where she is at risk of repetition of
torture or ill-treatment.
4. As the Committee against Torture suggests, monetary
compensation alone is not sufficient redress for a victim of
torture and ill-treatment; compensation awarded to a victim
should be sufficient to compensate for any economically
assessable damage resulting from torture or ill-treatment,
such as: reimbursement of medical expenses paid and
provision of funds to cover future medical or rehabilitative
services needed by the victim to ensure as full rehabilitation
as possible; material and moral damage resulting from the
physical and mental harm caused; loss of earnings and
77
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Ibid.