A/HRC/33/39 41. Another initiative was the dissemination in English and Khmer of the second edition of the Annotated Code of Criminal Procedure, originally published in 2014. The new edition, released in 2015, provides considerable new practical guidance to readers from not only the final judgments but also intermediary decisions by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia at various stages of court proceedings. Proposals on further dissemination of and follow-up to the Annotated Code were discussed among key stakeholders in the regular Extraordinary Chambers Legacy Update Meeting organized by OHCHR in December 2015. 42. In September 2015, the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia began hearing case 002/02, in which the former Head of State of Democratic Kampuchea, Khieu Samphan, and the former Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, Nuon Chea, stand accused of genocide. In February 2016, the Supreme Court Chamber commenced appeal hearings on case 002/01, in which the two men were found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. In December 2015, two former Khmer Rouge officials, Meas Muth and Yim Tith, were charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. IV. Supporting prison reform 43. OHCHR is in a partnership with the Directorate General of Prisons under the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Academy of Cambodia to support improvement in the legal and policy framework and the management of prisons and correctional centres throughout the country. During the period under review, the Ministry, the Directorate and the Academy all underwent restructuring and leadership changes, which also resulted in changes in the leadership of local prisons. 44. During the period under review, OHCHR had only limited access to prisoners given that the authorization for its annual prison visit in 2016 no longer allows OHCHR monitors to hold confidential interviews with prisoners. The ability to speak directly with persons deprived of liberty, free from fear of any potential consequences, is crucial to the quality and effectiveness of external independent monitoring. OHCHR had long been authorized to hold confidential interviews, including after the adoption in 2011 of the Law on Prisons and its reference to the national preventive mechanism in Cambodia. Regrettably, the authorization for the said interviews was revoked in a context when the national preventive mechanism does not yet qualify, in law or in practice, as an independent monitoring entity. 45. OHCHR continued to collaborate with the core trainers from the Directorate General of Prisons and the Police Academy of Cambodia to improve prison staff training. During the period under review, some 200 new prison staff recruits and in-service untrained staff received basic training at the Police Academy, which helped to reduce the backlog of approximately 600 untrained in-service staff. The Academy plans in 2016 to deliver a 3month basic training programme in prison management to 100 new recruits and untrained prison staff, to train two trainers in each prison, and to provide ongoing education to medium- and high-ranking prison officials (around 50 officials). 46. In support of the above-mentioned efforts, OHCHR co-organized joint study tours for prison trainees to three prisons, in August and December 2015 and in June 2016. The visits provided 200 new recruits and as yet untrained prison staff, and 20 trainers and officials from the Directorate General and the Police Academy, with an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge of prison standards to the real prison environment, and to improve future training programmes. A comprehensive, consolidated review of the curriculum to ensure its conformity with human rights has yet to be conducted, although individual trainers have been working on their own modules, with inputs from OHCHR. 9