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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.
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