FINAL vii. Abolish the death penalty in law, and commute all prisoners sentenced to capital punishment to life imprisonment; viii. Enact legislation which specifically criminalises extra-judicial killings; ix. Conduct prompt investigation of the deaths which have occurred in places of detention, taking into consideration that “Where a person dies in State custody, there is a presumption of State responsibility and the burden of proof rests upon the State to prove otherwise through a prompt, impartial, thorough and transparent investigation carried out by an independent body,” as stated in the Commission’s General Comment No. 3 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Right to Life; x. Conduct prompt investigation of the reported deaths in detention of members of the Jehovah Witness, and provide information in the next Report on the outcome of the investigations; Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment xi. Enact specific legislation which defines, prohibits and criminalizes torture, in accordance with international standards; xii. Provide statistics in the next Report on the number of cases of torture reported, investigated and prosecuted; xiii. Ensure the establishment of an accessible and fully independent mechanism to which all persons can report allegations of torture; xiv. Take immediate and urgent measures to conduct investigations on the reports of torture committed in places of detention, including ensuring prosecution of perpetrators and provision of redress to the victims or their families; Right to liberty and security of person, conditions of prisons and detention centres xv. In the next Report, ensure that the following information is provided: (a) The total number of prisons and other places of detention in the country; (b) The total number of the prison population, in addition to disaggregating the information according to the number of remand prisoners, convicted persons, female and male prisoners, in addition to juvenile prisoners; (c) The total number of prisoners currently sentenced to capital punishment; (d) The number of meals each prisoners receives daily, including whether the meals meet international standards; (e) The total number of the prison population with HIV/AIDS, in addition to information on the access to ARVs for the entire prison population with HIV/AIDS; (f) The total number of prison officials, including the number of female officers; 15

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