The report describes the country’s institutional and legal framework, referring in particular to the legal framework for detention as part of the criminal justice process. On the basis of the situation encountered during its visit to the country and the conclusions set out above, the Working Group invites the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to consider and apply the following recommendations: (d) It is necessary to establish by law an independent judiciary. All the necessary measures should be taken to guarantee, in law and in practice, the independence of judges, prosecutors and lawyers, in accordance with the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary and the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers adopted by the General Assembly in 1985 and 1990, respectively. In that connection, the possibility of revising the Judiciary Organization Act should be studied. The objective conditions in which competitive examinations for the appointment of judges and law officers are to be conducted shall be established by law, as shall the disciplinary measures to which they could be liable, in order to guarantee their independence and irremovability;