Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention 2016, para. 9
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Also encourages States to ensure the compilation and maintenance of up-to-date official registers and/or records of persons in police custody or pretrial detention, which, as a minimum, contain information about (a) the reasons for the arrest; (b) the time of the arrest and the taking of the arrested person to a place of custody, as well as that of his or her first appearance before a judicial or other authority; (c) the identity of the law enforcement officials concerned; (d) precise information concerning the place of custody; and to communicate such records to the detained person or his or her counsel, as prescribed by law;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: safeguards to prevent torture during police custody and pretrial detention (2016), A/HRC/RES/31/31, OP 9.