A/HRC/17/41 (b) Judges, as the rule of law guarantors, should be guided exclusively by the new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan and applicable international human rights standards. In case of retrials related to the June 2010 events, the hearings should not take place in courts in the south of the country in order to ensure impartiality of judges. Judges should maintain their impartiality irrespective of the ethnicity of victims, lawyers and defendants. To ensure such impartiality, provincial rotation mechanisms of judges and other participants in judicial processes should be adopted. (c) As per universal periodic review recommendations 76.52 and 76.57, supported by Kyrgyzstan, the Government should ensure that lawyers are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference, and that they should not be threatened with prosecution or administrative, economic or other sanctions for any action taken in accordance with recognized professional duties, standards and ethics; (d) The Government should guarantee fair trial to all those being tried in relation to the events of 7 April 2010 and in cases relating to the June 2010 interethnic violence and its aftermath in the south; (e) The Government should address the rights of all victims without discrimination and intensify its efforts to reach consensus on policies that are consistent with international standards, place victims at the centre of its agenda and ensure that all victims effectively enjoy the rights to truth, justice and reparations. 79. On torture and detention: (a) Law enforcement authorities should take urgent measures to prevent further illegal and arbitrary detentions and undertake a process of registering all detainees and ensuring that they are regularly brought before a competent court to determine the legality of their continued detention; (b) The Government, prior to the establishment and commencement of functions of the national preventive mechanism under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, should guarantee unrestricted access by civil society monitoring groups to all places of deprivation of liberty, including pretrial detention centres of the National Security Service, as a confidence-building measure that will ensure the trust of civil society and wider public in the work of the National Security Service; (c) The Government should ensure timely and effective investigations into torture allegations; (d) The Government should finalize legislative changes that further bring national laws into line with the human rights standards pertaining to the prohibition of torture. 80. On the right to adequate housing: (a) The Government should review and streamline its legislation and policies on housing in order to ensure their consistency with relevant international human rights norms and standards; (b) The Government should develop a comprehensive national housing strategy to ensure the inclusion of more diversified forms of housing to be provided for vulnerable groups, such as low-income households, large families, single mothers with young children, minorities, persons with disabilities, the elderly, internal migrant workers, refugees and asylum-seekers; 15