Reception centres under internal affairs bodies for persons of no fixed abode and without documents Special reception centres under internal affairs bodies for persons subjected to administrative detention Para. 1. Reception centres are designed for holding persons of no fixed abode and without documents for purposes of establishing their identity and further transfer to relevant bodies and institutions (migration, medical, social and others. Para. 1. Special reception centres under internal affairs bodies for holding persons subjected to administrative detention (hereafter special reception centres) are established based on the order of the Minister of the Interior of the Kyrgyz Republic for serving one or several internal affairs bodies. Para 9. In the buildings of reception centres, in accordance with their design standards, the following rooms should be set up: - rooms with separate accommodation for men, women and women with children, foreigners and stateless persons, isolation rooms for newly arrived persons who did not go through decontamination, and those who are sick; - rooms for duty officers, clerical staff, head of the reception centre, medical worker, inspectors, and maintenance needs; - sanitary inspection room, rooms for warming up food and cooking, and toilet facilities. Para 6. The following rooms should be set up, at the least, in special reception centres in accordance with their design standards: - rooms for separate placement of men and women; - isolation rooms for newly arrived persons who did not go through decontamination and those who are sick; - rooms for the duty shift, head of the special reception centre, medical worker, inspectors and service personnel; - shower-room, disinfection room, drying room, rooms for warming up food, eating, washing and storing kitchen utensils, a closet for storing personal belongings of those in detention and other maintenance items, and toilet facilities. Para 31. Persons of no fixed abode and without documents should be placed in rooms that have doors with heavy latches and inspection holes; metal bars should be installed on the windows. Every cell should have internal regulations approved by a chief police officer hanging on the walls. Para 34. Detainees are placed on trestle beds or regular beds. They should be supplied with towels, and in case beds are available – with mattress pads and pillows with pillow-cases. Mattress pads and pillows with pillow-cases should be provided to persons with disabilities, senior citizens and underage persons staying with their parents at all times. Para. 21. Those subjected to administrative detention should be placed in locked rooms which should be guarded and be under surveillance on a 24/7 basis. Men and women should only be placed separately. Para 35. Detainees should be allowed to take one-hour walks daily. Para 22. A walk should last at least two hours and should take place only in the daytime. Para 22. Those subjected to administrative detention should be placed on beds. The standard space requirement per each person should be 2.5 sq. m. They should be provided with bedding, newspapers, magazines and board games. They should be taken out for walks on a daily basis. Already on 13 September 2011, during a joint meeting of the Public Supervisory Boards under both the MoI and the State National Security Committee with the participation of then President Otunbaeva, members of the PSB under the MoI drew the attention of the leadership of the ministry to this problem and offered assistance in developing a new Regulation on reception centres under internal affairs bodies that would be fully compliant with all requirements as for minimum human rights standards. However, no response followed from the MoI. 44

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