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Detainees are still not allowed to be engaged in work and to be involved in the social and
cultural activities.
Despite the NPM recommendations, engagement of detainees in working activities is still not
allowed, nor are they involved in any social or cultural activities. Likewise, there are no
sufficient conditions for physical activates, particularly during the poor weather conditions.
The NMP, alike in the previous reports, stressed the problem related to the system for the
enforcement of detention measures in Serbia, i.e., the fact that detainees are locked in their
cells/ sleeping rooms for the whole day, without any possibility to take part in any other
activities.
Material accommodation conditions in most of detention units are still not harmonized with
the applicable standards.
As also stressed in the previous reporting period, material accommodation conditions and
other living conditions of detainees in certain detentions units are still not aligned with the
applicable standards, they are not allowed a space in sleeping rooms of at least eight cubic
meters and four square meters. Certain rooms within the detention units are in the extremely
poor condition, with ruined toilet fixtures, dirty, non-aired rooms with insufficient inflow of
natural light and unsatisfactory artificial lightning.
In line with the NPM recommendations, DP Belgrade moved its female detainees in one of the
two blocks, thereby enabling them more adequate accommodation conditions and fulfilment of
their right to information.
In the course of the visit to DP Belgrade, NPM established that the female detainees were in
particularly poor position, primarily due to very poor accommodation conditions. Besides, due
to some technical problems, they could not use TV or radio, which constituted violation of their
right to information. Complying with the recommendations of the NPM, DP Belgrade moved
its female detainees in one of two blocks where they can use TV and radio, which also has more
adequate accommodations conditions. Besides, while complying with the NPM
recommendations, DP Belgrade rectified the problem related to inadequate hygiene packages
dedicated to women.
The scenario that due to a small number of female detainees they mostly spend their detention
measures in solitary confinement, i.e. in isolation is still common.
Due to a relatively small number of female detainees in certain detention units, they are very
often isolated, i.e., are placed in solitary confinement for a longer period of time. By doing so,
what constitutes a disciplinary measure for persons serving their prison terms, it very often for
women detainees constitutes the way they serve their detention measures.
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