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India-Pakistan judicial panel stresses need for consular access to prisoners

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New Delhi, January 27, 2012
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Members of the India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners today said the Consular Access Agreement of May 2008 signed between the two governments must be implemented fully after visiting jails in Delhi, Jaipur and Amritsar from January 23-27.
 
The committee said, in its recommendations at the conclusion of the visit, consular access must be provided within three months of the arrest and repatriation must take place within one month of confirmation of national status and completion of sentences.
 
It also said consular access must be provided immediately to all those prisoners who have not been given consular access so far and the process of nationality confirmation should start immediately after consular access is provided.

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