A/HRC/42/13 statistical data and other reports and information relevant to recommendations received through the universal periodic review and from treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights organs and bodies. The establishment of such ministerial coordination bodies would strengthen plans and inform the possible creation in the future of a national mechanism for reporting and follow-up with respect to the recommendations issued by all human rights mechanisms. 9. Under the Constitution, freedom of expression, thought, ideas and opinions were recognized, and under Act No. 6/1997 on the press, publishing and audiovisual media, the free establishment of all media without prior censorship was authorized. The Government was open to discussions of proposals to review that Act with a view to better compliance with its objectives. 10. Various newspapers, television networks, WhatsApp and the Internet currently functioned in the country. There were no restrictions on access to social media, although the Government acknowledged the persistence of some technical operational difficulties. Concerning the online newspaper Diario Rombe and the radio station Radio Macuto, the Government applied the relevant law, namely Act No. 6/1997, and accorded primacy to the right to honour and the good name and reputation of persons and institutions, as recognized by the Constitution. 11. As mandated at the third National Economic Conference, the Government had set the review of Act No. 1/1999 as a political priority for the country. 12. The main measures taken by the State to ensure an independent judicial system included professionalizing the judiciary, providing training to strengthen the capacity of legal actors and bolstering the role of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary. Additionally, in order to minimize as far as possible cases of abuse of power, the disciplinary regime to which judicial bodies were subjected would be further strengthened. 13. The security forces were undergoing a progressive process of professionalization. To that end, the EMIGO military academy and the Judicial Institute had been created and were being strengthened. The Government was open to cooperation with the international community on those issues, including with the United Nations and with the States development partners. 14. Regarding the issue of child labour, the country had ratified the relevant international human rights instruments and the Presidency had established a national commission on the rights of the child. 15. Detainees were guaranteed free legal assistance and a specific budget had been allocated to the Bar Association of Equatorial Guinea to that effect, as established by law. Persons arrested remained in police custody for up to 72 hours, after which period, by law, a judicial authority must issue an explicit authorization to detain. New penitentiary facilities had been built in Bata and in Oveng Asem, Mongomo. Moreover, the Government had established clinics in prisons to ensure basic health care, and the Ministries of Justice and of Health had reached an agreement for prisoners to be treated in the main hospitals. The Government had recognized that there had been deaths in custody and was ready to allow impartial observers to visit jails and prisons in coordination with national oversight bodies, to provide observations and guidance. 16. Whenever there had been cases in which there had been sufficient evidence of abuse by the security forces, disciplinary action had been taken and the perpetrators had been removed from their functions, made available to the courts and punished in accordance with the law. 17. The right to peaceful assembly was provided for in the national binding agreement between the Government and political parties, as well as in the outcome document of the national political dialogue that had recently been held in Malabo. 18. Freedom of association and the right to strike, to demonstrate and to lodge a complaint were enshrined in the Constitution, and the exercise of those rights was regulated by Act No. 12/1992 on trade unions and Act No. 5/2015 on freedom of assembly and 3