their client, the requirement that a detainee answer all questions asked of him or her and
the rights of a detained person to communicate with their family;
•
the practice of detaining children in immigration detention, including for prolonged
periods;
•
the conditions in immigration detention facilities;
•
the necessity to monitor the safety of those deported after not being recognised as
refugees;
•
the need to have proper procedural safeguards in immigration matters to ensure
Australia’s non-refoulement obligation is fulfilled; and
•
the need to minotor prison facilities regularly.
Fiji
The ACJ recommends that the Fiji Human Rights Commission (FHRC) urges its Government
to address the following issues:
•
the need for Fiji to become a party to the ICCPR, the ICESCR, the CAT, the First
Optional Protocol, the OPCAT and the Protocols to the Geneva Conventions.
•
the need to establish minimum standards of interrogation for use by the police and other
disciplinary authorities;
•
the need to adopt video-recorded interview procedures to corroborate police evidence, to
ensure the voluntariness of confessions and to eradicate the use of torture or "softening
up" techniques prior to or during interrogations;
•
the need to ensure legal protections to persons forcibly returned to a country in which they
may face torture or other forms of ill-treatment;
•
the continuing low standards of hygiene, health care, food, housing and other basic
services provided in correctional facilities;
•
the need to implement the recommendations of the Fiji Law Reform Commission when it
has completed its review of prison laws and regulations; and
•
the promotion of the National Security and Human Rights Handbook.
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