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for the period 1990 to 1993, an account of judgments delivered by the courts in cases
involving allegations of ill-treatment by the police (i.e. brief description of the facts; verdict;
if appropriate, sentence imposed) (paragraph 30);
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information on the administrative/disciplinary procedures applied in cases involving
allegations of ill-treatment by the police, and, in particular, full details of the guarantees
ensuring the objectivity of such investigations (paragraph 30);
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full details of the progress being made in the criminal investigations into the death of
Mr Akyar Suleyman (paragraph 33).
3.
Formal safeguards against the ill-treatment of persons detained by the police
recommendations
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persons detained by the police to have the right to inform, without delay, a close relative or
third party of their choice of their situation (paragraph 38);
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any possibility exceptionally to delay the exercise of the right to have the fact of one's
custody notified to a close relative or third party to be clearly circumscribed, made subject to
appropriate safeguards (eg. any such delay to be recorded in writing together with the
reasons therefor and to require the approval of a senior officer or public prosecutor) and to
be strictly limited in time (paragraph 38);
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persons detained by the police to have the right of access to an independent lawyer as from
the outset of their detention (paragraph 41);
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the right of access to a lawyer to include the right to contact and to be visited by him or her
(in both cases under conditions guaranteeing the confidentiality of the discussions), as well
as, in principle, the right of the person concerned to have the lawyer present during
interrogations (paragraph 41);
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specific legal provisions to be adopted on the subject of the right of persons in police
custody to have access to a doctor. These provisions to stipulate, inter alia, that:
a person detained by the police has the right to be examined, if he so wishes, by a doctor
of his own choice (either for treatment or the drawing up of a forensic medical report), in
addition to any medical examination carried out by a doctor called by the police
authorities or to whom those authorities have taken the detainee;
all medical examinations are to be conducted out of the hearing and - unless the doctor
concerned requests otherwise - out of the sight of police officers;
the results of every examination, as well as any relevant statements by the detainee and
the doctor's conclusions, are to be recorded in writing by the doctor and made available
to the detainee and his lawyer (paragraph 43);
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