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Report contains statistics in addition to detailed information on investigating complaints and deaths as well as policy and research activities carried out during 2022 to 23.
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Report contains statistics in addition to detailed information on investigating complaints and deaths as well as policy and research activities carried out during 2021 - 2022
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