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Article 20 Facultatief Protocol bij het Verdrag tegen foltering en andere wrede, onmenselijke of onterende behandeling of bestraffing

NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISMS

In order to enable the national preventive mechanisms to fulfil their mandate, the States Parties to the present Protocol undertake to grant them:

a) Access to all information concerning the number of persons deprived of their liberty in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as the number of places and their location;

b) Access to all information referring to the treatment of those persons as well as their conditions of detention;

c) Access to all places of detention and their installations and facilities;

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 national preventive mechanism believes may supply relevant information;

e) The liberty to choose the places they want to visit and the persons they want to interview;

f) The right to have contacts with the Subcommittee on Prevention, to send it information and to meet with it.

Regeling
Facultatief Protocol bij het Verdrag tegen foltering en andere wrede, onmenselijke of onterende behandeling of bestraffing
Afkortingen
OPCAT
Soort
Verdrag
Geldend vanaf
28-10-2010
BWB-id
BWBV0004712
Versie
2010-10-28_0

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