Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Government action on torture or other ill-treatment; 3. Torture or other ill-treatment by security forces: Torture or other ill-treatment by police (De facto unacknowledged and incommunicado detention; Solitary confinement in police custody) - Torture or other ill-treatment by officers of the National Security Service (Human rights violations by NSS officers in the context of national security and the fight against terrorism; Unofficial places of detention used by the NSS); 4. Independent monitoring of places of detention: Regional independent public monitoring commissions (Access to IVS and police custody under the Ministry of Internal Affairs by Public Monitoring Commissions) - Ombudsman and Presidential Human Rights Commission - Special Rapporteur on Torture; 5. Lack of effective and independent investigations: Right to lodge a complaint - Investigative mechanism - Effectiveness of investigations - Targeting families; 6. Prosecutions; 7. Failure to exclude evidence elicited as a result of torture or ill-treatment; 8. No adequate reparation; 9. Recommendations. Endnotes