However, the Committee also raised concern over detainee’s rights in practice such as the right to access legal counsel, have an independent medical examination and to inform relatives of the arrest. According to the Committee’s findings the maximum period of preventive detention has often not been respected.
The Committee recommends Paraguay to take all steps necessary to comply with the absolute prohibition of torture and to accelerate the implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) which is supported by the Atlas of Torture Project of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna.
Paraguay should also take steps to guarantee the rights of detainees, to ensure that any evidence obtained under torture was inadmissible and to eradicate any corruption in the police and prison system.
CAT (2011) Concluding Observations (in Spanish)
UNOG: COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION
