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specific groups, including illiterate persons, minorities, persons with disabilities, older
persons, indigenous peoples, non-nationals, including migrants regardless of their migration
status, refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons and children. The information shall be
provided in a language and a means, mode or format that is accessible and that the said
persons understand, taking into account augmentative and alternative means of
communications for persons with a mental or physical impairment. In the case of children,
information must be provided in a manner appropriate to their age and maturity.
58.
Means of verification that a person has actually been informed shall be established.
These means may include documentation of the person having been informed by way of
printed record, audiotape, videotape or witnesses.
59.
The above-mentioned information should also be widely published and made
accessible to the general public and to geographically isolated groups and groups
marginalized as a result of discriminatory practices. Use should be made of radio and
television programmes, regional and local newspapers, the Internet and other means, in
particular following any changes to the law or specific issues affecting a community.
Guideline 6
Registers and record-keeping
60.
To ensure the accuracy and completeness of registers and adequate case
management, and to ensure that State authorities know at all times who is held in their
custody or detention facilities, including prisons and any other place of deprivation of
liberty:
(a)
All records must contain the following
disaggregated by sex and age of the detainee:
(i)
minimum information,
The identity of the person;
(ii)
The date, time and place where the person was deprived of liberty, and
the identity of the authority that deprived the person of liberty;
(iii)
it;
The authority that ordered the deprivation of liberty and the grounds for
(iv)
The authority responsible for supervising the deprivation of liberty;
(v)
The place of deprivation of liberty, the date and time of admission to
the place of deprivation of liberty, and the authority responsible for the place
of deprivation of liberty;
(vi)
Relevant information on the detainee’s state of health;
(vii) In the event of death of the detainee during the deprivation of liberty,
the circumstances and cause of death and the destination of the remains;
(viii) The date and time of release or transfer to another place of detention,
the destination and the authority responsible for the transfer;
(b)
Known procedures must be in place to safeguard against unauthorized
access or modification of any information contained in the register and/or records of
persons deprived of liberty;
(c)
The registers and/or records of persons deprived of liberty shall be
made promptly available, upon request, to any judicial or other competent authority
or institution authorized for that purpose by the law;
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