5. 6. 7. 8. To make amendments in the CPC KR stating that in case a defence attorney provided to citizens is not on the Guaranteed State Legal Assistance list this will considered a significant violation of the law and result in cancellation of a sentence. To review the rates for defence attorney services within the guaranteed state legal assistance framework and to increase those in order to hire experienced defence lawyers providing qualified services to their clients. To establish a mechanism allowing monitoring the quality of legal assistance provided. To make a revision of the defence lawyers register so that it could include sufficient information allowing suspects alleged offenders and defendants to invite a lawyer of their own choosing. EFFECTIVE DOCUMENTATION OF TORTURE, INDEPENDENT EXPERT EXAMINATION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. To integrate the Istanbul Protocol in all graduate and post-graduate training programmes for medical workers (doctors, nurses, medical assistants). To integrate the Istanbul Protocol in the practice of all institutions providing treatment and diagnostic assistance regardless of which agency they belong to. To introduce the Istanbul Protocol as a mandatory diagnostic standard based on evidence-based medicine. To introduce torture documentation, on the basis of the Istanbul Protocol, in the existing statistical reporting system in the area of health care and monitoring and evaluation of medical and diagnostic facilities. To make sure that the entire staff of the State Forensic Medical Service takes special training on the basis of the Istanbul Protocol. To develop and to introduce, together with the Ministry of Health, a universal medical examination form for registering health condition and bodily injuries of detainees at the moment of their arrival in TDFs for the first time and when they are taken back after being transferred from TDFs for purposes of investigative activities. To design a plan on transferring medical personnel in close institutions to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health on a step by step basis. To introduce, for purposes of registering signs of torture effectively, a primary examination sheet when detainees are placed in TDFs, reception centres and PDFs, developed in conjunction with doctors of these institutions and independent experts from nongovernmental human rights organizations. CIVIL CONTROL 1. 2. To adopt a draft law “On civil control bodies on the respect for human rights in the activities of internal affairs bodies.” To provide public supervisory boards with a possibility to carry out public control, on an unimpeded and effective basis, in places of detention and to publicize public control results and recommendations. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM 1. To ensure the adequate allocation of budget funds and providing the Kyrgyz National Centre for Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment with sufficient human and financial resources to carry out an effective work. REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION OF TORTURE VICTIMS 1. To develop a mechanism for psychological and psychiatric and/or medical rehabilitation of victims of torture. 20

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