A/HRC/17/44 visits to the same place and the possibility to interview prisoners in private without witnesses; (g) To bring all laws and policies of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya into conformity with international human rights standards. 259. The Commission calls on the National Transitional Council: (a) To ensure the immediate implementation of applicable international humanitarian law and international human rights law; (b) To conduct exhaustive, impartial and public investigations into all alleged violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and in particular to investigate, with a view to prosecuting, cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and torture, with full respect for judicial guarantees; (c) To grant adequate reparations to the victims or their families, and to take all appropriate measures to prevent the recurrence of such violations; (d) To make further efforts to ensure strict control over weapons in the possession of individuals; (e) To ensure free, full and unrestricted access to all places of detention for humanitarian and human rights organizations, granting access to all facilities without prior notice and to all premises of each detention centre, the possibility for repeat visits to the same place and the possibility to interview prisoners in private without witnesses. 260. With regard to the humanitarian situation, the Commission calls on the Government and the National Transitional Council to fulfil their respective obligations under international humanitarian law, particularly those regarding the protection of civilians, including the facilitation of immediate, free and unimpeded access for humanitarian personnel to all persons in need of assistance, in accordance with applicable international law. 261. The Commission, in view of the time frame within which it has had to complete its work, and considering the gravity and the complexity of the situation, recommends that the Human Rights Council remain seized of the situation by extending the mandate of the Commission or by establishing a mechanism with the ability to continue the necessary investigations into both the human rights and humanitarian law situations in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for a period of one year. 70

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