E/CN.4/2001/66 page 135 stated that Pavel Bass had showed no sign of injury. A number of his relatives confirmed that he had got drunk at his father’s funeral, had smashed furniture and had attacked the neighbours, the local militia inspector and the officers with a knife. The duty officers stated that Pavel Bass had resisted vigorously, had lunged at them, but had tripped and fallen from the third floor onto the second floor landing. They arrested him and brought him to the district internal affairs department. He was released on compassionate grounds and his unlawful acts had been registered as petty hooliganism. 685. Concerning conditions of detention of remand prisoners (ibid., para. 711), the Government responded that five remand prisons in the cities of Bishek, Osh, Naryn and Karakol, and a remand prison for youths in Voznesenovka in the Chu region were designed to hold 2,425 detainees. Their average population at any one time was approximately 3,000 and was rising for several reasons, such as the shortage of fuel to transfer prisoners to court and to prisons after sentencing, as well as of disrupted rail services to transport prisoners, inter alia, from the remand prison in Osh (holding 600 remand prisoners in a facility designed for 390) to that in Bishek. The government decision to build additional remand prisons in Jalal-Abad, Talas and Chu regions has not been implemented due to financial difficulties although construction work has begun on the Chu remand centre, designed for 500 detainees. The introduction of a two-year moratorium on the death penalty had an effect on the number of persons convicted of capital offences being held in remand prison No. 1 in Bishek, designed for 36 but currently holding over 70 offenders. Detainees receive compulsory medical examinations and, when ill, are registered to receive out-patient treatment. In the case of the need for in-patient care, detainees are transferred to Bishek hospital. The budget for purchasing medicines, especially for tuberculosis, of remand centres covers only 70 per cent of requirements. The standard average food allowance amounts to 12.85 som, but only 10 som are allocated. Only 30 per cent of bedding needs are catered for. The conditions are caused by under-funding and deficient equipment and facilities. 686. Concerning living conditions of minors at the special educational facilities at Belovodskoe village (Moskovsky district), the Government replied that the school, to which minors aged 11 to 14 are referred by local commissions for minors’ affairs, authorized by the Ministry of Education, can accommodate 150 pupils. Fifty-seven youngsters are enrolled and 17 have escaped, practically no effort being made to trace them. The education provided is inadequate, the sanitation substandard due to a lack of cleaning products and provision for personal hygiene, most of the bedding is threadbare, and each child only has one pair of shoes. There is no heating in the living quarters, the children suffer from colds and other illnesses and medical care is provided by a solitary health worker. The pupils receive only 15 som, instead of the specified daily food allowance of 40 som. The teaching staff is not complying with legal requirements on rehabilitating minors in their care. There is lax supervision. There is a special vocational college in Belovodskoe for troubled youths aged between 14 and 18 years, which does not ensure that the pupils are adequately trained. Of 24 registered youths in the facility, 14 had run away. Residential conditions are unsatisfactory and on-site facilities and equipment is inadequate or unsatisfactory. The teenagers live in isolation from the outside world. 687. Concerning conditions of detention at the Voznesenovka correctional labour company; the Government replied that it was intended for the rehabilitation of young male offenders serving custodial sentences and that it could accommodate 300 persons, but had a population