From January through November 2012, the Rehabilitation Centre provided rehabilitation services to 110 victims of torture who passed full examination and received medical assistance depending on the severity of their condition. As many as 22 victims of torture have undergone in-patient treatment which implies compulsory hospitalization to a medical facility and combination treatment for ten days, including drug treatment with necessary medications as needed, psychological/psychotherapeutic treatment and other procedures. Real-life example from the work of the Rehabilitation Centre: Mr. M., 27, was subjected to torture twice by officers of the Tyup region Interior Department who wanted to punish him because he refused to fix a car belonging to one of the police officers for free. As reported by M., five police officers beat him up and kick him the head, after which he fainted. The police officers thought that the young man was dead, and they covered him with snow and left. But M. survived and filed a complaint to the prosecution authority. His condition was diagnosed by the supervising doctor as “consequences of an internal brain injury followed by asthenovegetative syndrome.” As part of the rehabilitation programme, M. was hospitalized and for ten days he went through combination and drug treatment. A psychotherapist has been working with M. and his mother for more than a year who is also applying combined psychotherapy, because apart from physical injuries, M. went through a severe psychological shock, while his mother was pressured by police officers. As many as 28 people went through out-patient treatment, full examination and further treatment in medical institutions under the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health (clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres) accompanied by a social worker. Real-life example from the work of the Rehabilitation Centre: An inhabitant of Talas province, Mr. S., 33, was subjected to torture by police officers of the Bakai-Ata region Interior Department who attempted to obtain confessionary statements with respect to the stealing of French beans. As reported by S., they handcuffed him behind his back and beat him with their hands and feet all over his body. They also beat him with batons and a plastic bottle filled with water, and put a gas mask on his face to strangle him. S. fainted several times. Upon his release from custody, since the criminal case against S. was terminated, his parents approached the Rehabilitation Programme. His condition was diagnosed by a physician of the Rehabilitation Centre as “consequences of a closed craniocerebral injury, brain concussion followed by convulsive disorder, a flare-up of chronic gastritis, active pyelonephritis.” He was diagnosed by his supervising doctor with a closed craniocerebral injury, brain concussion, late recovery accompanied by convulsive disorder, spasm of accommodation in both eyes, a flare-up of chronic septic maxilloethMoIdal sinusitis on both sides, dextral frontal sinusitis. The doctor has pointed to the man’s critical condition and hospitalized him for conducting a combined examination. For more than a year, S. has been under psychotherapeutic observation because of the severe psychological stress that he went through. Rehabilitation of torture victims is necessary not only for restoring bodily functions that were interrupted due to physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment, but also for the reintegration of such individuals into regular life. One of the prerequisites is to change the surroundings while carrying out the rehabilitation programme. To achieve this goal, in 2012, six victims of torture from Issyk-Kul province passed rehabilitation treatment in Bishkek. Mobile group in Karakol In their practical work, the Rehabilitation Centre often had to deal with cases when assistance had to be provided to non-transportable patients, due to their poor state of health, at their place of residence. To resolve this issue, since 2011 the Rehabilitation Centre has broadened co-operation with medical institutions in the regions. In 2012, as many as five victims of torture passed in-patient treatment in Osh clinics. 81