The United Nations working group on arbitrary detention is visiting Malta between Monday and Friday at the invitation of the government. The group will visit several detention facilities, where it will conduct interviews with detainees, and meet government authorities, members of non-governmental organisations and representatives of UN agencies and international organisations.

It is expected to meet high level authorities from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government to study the institutional and legal framework regarding deprivation of liberty in the country.

Meetings will be held with ministers, judges from the constitutional and criminal courts, the Attorney-General, public prosecutors, police and military commanders, correctional services authorities, and representatives of the bar association and of several monitoring bodies such as the Ombudsman.

The group intends to visit various correctional institutions; penitentiaries; prisons; immigration holding facilities; psychiatric hospitals; a substance abuse therapeutic unit; military detention facilities; and police stations.

A report on the mission will be considered by the group at its 54th session to be held in Geneva in May.

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