MoI – Ministry of Interior
NGO – Non-governmental organization
OSCE – Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
PDF – Pre-trial detention facility
PSB – Public Supervisory Board
Reception centres – Reception centres under internal affairs bodies for persons of no fixed abode
and documents and special reception institutions under internal affairs bodies for persons subject to
administrative detention
SCNS – State Committee of National Security
Standard Minimum Rules – UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners7
SSEP –State Service for the Execution of Punishments under the Government of the Kyrgyz
Republic
TDF – Temporary detention facility
TID – Transportation Interior Department
UN – United Nations
UN Basic Principles – UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers8
Universal Declaration – UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
September 2010 (Ref. No. 128) and Laws of the Kyrgyz Republic of 14 July 2011 (Ref. No. 99) and 19 October 2011
(Ref. No. 180).
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Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders on 30
August 1955.
8
Adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana,
Cuba, 27 August to 7 September 1990.
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