and to act independently to inform the Heads of the institution and deliver proper medical and psychological services for similar cases. As above, in the end of the monitoring report, the following was recommended: 1. Analysis of the case of violation of the rights to hunger strike of the prisoners of room no. 4, Observation Unit at Peqin IECD and initiation of administrative procedures for the adoption of disciplinary measures against Mr. Edlir Kazazi, with the duty of internal regime specialist and Mr. Besnik Kaptelli with the duty of Chief of Security, Peqin IECD. 2. Adoption of immediate measures by the Director of the Institution regarding the analysis and identification of responsibilities for the lack of coordination by the security and health and psycho-social sectors to provide adequate conditions for the convicts in cases when they are on hunger strike. 3. Adoption of immediate measures to limit overcrowding at Peqin IECD, with a view that every cell offers a minimum of 4m² living space per person in accordance with article 22, paragraph 1 of the General Regulation of Prisons. 4. Adoption of immediate measures to address the situation of overcrowding at Peqin IECD pursuant to article 24 of Law no. 8328 dated 16.04.1998 ”On rights and treatement of imprisoned persons and pre-trial detainees”, as amended, providing to every convict a separate bed and appropriate bedding/sleeping kit . 5. Adoption of immediate measures by the Director of the Institution to put an end to the degrading situation and conditions of inhuman treatment of 16 prisoners in the room no. 4 of the Observation Unit, in full compliance with the General Regulation of Prisons, article 21, paragraph 1 “The prisoner stays in the admission rom no longer than 10 days and then he/she shall be housed in the domicile premises. While accommodating the prisoners in rooms, due account should be taken of the requirements related to the sentence term, age, health status … Berat IECD – Dated 03.09.2015 Periodic monitoring visit of the People’s Advocate experts at Berat IECD for year 2015 was conducted in compliance with the procedure of monitoring the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture. The purpose of the visit was to collect information about the rights and treatment of prisoners, and identifying the level of the implementation of recommendations made by the People’s Advocate by letter no. K/4I46-2, dated 19.11.2014 with subject: “Recommended the improvement of conditions and treatment of prisoners at Berat IECD”. Based on the information collected onsite, during the confidential interviews with the prisoners and personnel of Berat IECD and through the identification of documents, facilities and premises, it resulted that most of the recommendations of previous year were implemented because upon the transfer and takeover of the new building of Berat IECD, a number of issues reported within the previous premises of Berat IECD would be significantly improved. Meanwhile, a number of recommendations are still not implemented such as the employment of a full time doctor/physician. Although the premises of this IECD were new, the heater, emergency bell in rooms within the regime, were not operational. Further, according to the inspection of a series of premises or facilities such as the dentist room, IECD shop, TV hall, 37

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