translate English to French: In April, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) urged Denmark to make torture a specific offence which could be investigated, prosecuted and punished without time limitations.By the end of the year there had been no independent investigation of allegations that31 men captured by Danish Special Forces in Afghanistan in March 2002 and handed over to the US authorities had subsequently been ill-treated while in US custody.Following the publication of an Amnesty International report on transfers of prisoners to the Afghan authorities from forces, including Danish forces, making up the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, the Minister of Defence announced that Danish troops would in future monitor the treatment of all prisoners transferred from their custody to Afghan custody.
En avril, le Comité contre la torture [ONU] a exhorté le Danemark à qualifier la torture d'infraction spécifique pouvant donner lieu à une enquête, à des poursuites et à des sanctions, sans qu'il puisse y avoir prescription.