28.177
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish all forms of arbitrary detention, including internment camps in Xinjiang, and immediately release the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of individuals detained in these camps
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
130.79
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take effective measures to ensure that fundamental legal safeguards to protect persons arrested by law enforcement officials are respected
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
132.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Repeal provisions in the Constitution and in laws that provide for arraigo detention and investigate and prosecute allegations of violations of human rights committed under these laws
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Impunity
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
148.157
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the implementation of the Nigerian Prisons and Correctional Service Bill
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
28.13.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
28.13.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
78.6.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
78.6.2
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
78.6.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
78.6.4
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
78.6.5
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 18, 2021
122.182
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Put an end to arbitrary detention, ensure the safety of detainees, reveal their whereabouts and inform them of the charges against them, in addition to ensuring their right to access to justice and fair trial, and the immediate release of all detainees without legal justification
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Access to justice
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 17, 2021
151.111
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Abolish physical punishment, including caning and judicial beatings, in the legal system, both civil and sharia
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 16, 2021
130.84
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to improve human rights conditions in prisons and places of detention through institutional reform and international cooperation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.9
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Speed up the process for depositing the instrument of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
28.220
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen law enforcement education and supervision for judicial personnel
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to eradicate human rights violations committed by security forces, especially extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention and torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Extrajudicial executions
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.8
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
28.170
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen measures preventing torture and ill-treatment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.10
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and establish a national mechanism for the prevention of torture and improve its system for registering persons deprived of their liberty
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.95
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Include a definition of torture in the Criminal Code, which fully incorporates article 1 of the Convention against Torture, within this universal periodic review cycle
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the police, the army or the Directorate General of Territory Surveillance and the gendarmerie refrain from imprisoning detainees longer than the 72-hour limit stipulated in article 48 of the Criminal Code of Procedure and grant human rights monitors access to detention centres
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.96
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Include a concrete definition of torture according to the Convention against Torture in the Criminal Code and take effective measures to ensure the prosecution of all perpetrators of any form of ill-treatment
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release all remaining prisoners of conscience, investigate reports of abuses by security forces and deaths of persons in detention, and take effective measures to ensure fair trial guarantees for all individuals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Noted
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
136.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider revising the use of administrative detention and take measures to guarantee access to legal assistance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Justice
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.86
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the efforts begun to reduce prison overcrowding and strengthen the resources available to penitentiary institutions
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
132.59
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take steps to implement the General Act on the Prevention, Investigation and Punishment of Torture of 2017, especially during the first few hours of arrest
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble efforts to relieve prison pressure and generally improve detention conditions in places of detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
130.85
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue the implementation of a strategy to reduce prison overcrowding and improve living conditions in prisons
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Date modified
- Feb 12, 2021
76.3
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 31 - November 2018
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Redouble its efforts to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and reaffirm its commitment to preventing torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- International instruments
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Treaty bodies
- Date modified
- Jul 1, 2020