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Slovenia

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Legal instrument Key provision
Criminal procedure act (Zakon o kazenskem postopku)Supervision over the treatment of detainees shall be carried out by the president of the district court. The president of the court, or a judge appointed by them, shall be obliged at least once a week to visit detainees and to ask them if they consider it necessary, including without the presence of judicial police officers, how they are being treated. They shall be obliged to take the necessary action to remove irregularities, which they noticed during their visit to the institution. The appointed judge may not be the investigating judge. The president of the court and the investigating judge may at any time visit detainees, talk to them and accept complaint.

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