A/HRC/22/58 VIII. Recommendations 86. All prisoners of conscience should be released immediately and unconditionally. 87. The Commission to grant liberty to remaining prisoners of conscience should include all relevant stakeholders, including civil society and former prisoners of conscience, and should be established as a permanent body to review future detentions and be given a broad terms of reference to help ensure the rights of released prisoners of conscience are respected. 88. To address the ongoing practice of torture in places of detention, the Government should: (a) Prosecute allegations of torture by police and army personnel through the criminal justice system; (b) Ensure human rights training programmes for police officers and prison officials, and develop the capacity of other relevant public officials, including judges and doctors, who can intervene on suspected cases of torture; (c) Continue the good cooperation with the ICRC; (d) Provide national and other international monitoring groups with access to places of detention; (e) Prioritize the ratification of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment, and its Optional Protocol; (f) Invite the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to conduct a country visit; (g) Improve health care in prisons; (h) Adopt and implement a new Prisons Law to help address concerns over the use of solitary confinement, transfers to remote prisons and non-judicial punishment. 89. To continue progress in improving media freedom, the Government should: (a) Remove the power of the Copyright and Registration Division to summon journalists for questioning and suspend publications; (b) Reform the registration process for print publications, so that the granting and revocation of licences cannot be used as a tool for censorship; (c) Pass a right to information act; (d) In addition to passing a new media law, review the proposed Printing and Publishing Enterprise Law and reform the Electronic Transactions Law (2004), the Motion Picture Law (1996), the Computer Science Development Law (1996), the Television and Video Law (1985), the Printers and Publishers Registration Act (1962), the Wireless Telegraphy Act (1933), the Emergency Provisions Act (1950), and the State Protection Act (1975) to bring them into line with international human rights standards; (e) Establish an independent and public broadcasting licensing authority with the power to examine broadcasting applications and to grant licences; (f) Ensure public service broadcasting operates independently with editorial freedom, including through a system of funding that does not undermine independence; 18

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