Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 6. RECOMMENDATIONS Persons deprived of their liberty who are in the prison system: 1. To the Ministry of Justice, to investigate in detail all allegations indicating possible torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, including allegations of verbal abuse and use of excessive force; 2. To the Ministry of Justice, to adopt a new Act on Execution of the Prison Sentence and to remedy the shortcomings in the part of the Criminal Procedure Act that pertains to execution of remand imprisonment; 3. To the Ministry of Justice, to adapt accommodation conditions in all penal institutions to comply with legal and international standards; 4. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to provide supplementary health insurance for all prisoners who are without regular income; 5. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to adapt the space and equipment in the medical facilities of penal institutions to comply with prescribed minimum requirements; 6. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to enable prison physicians to issue prescriptions for medications and referral slips that will be accepted by external medical institutions; 7. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to implement legislation changes so that the healthcare of prisoners be entirely covered by the public healthcare system; 8. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to adopt a protocol on treatment of hunger strikers; Persons with mental disorders who are in psychiatric institutions: 9. To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health, to implement legislation changes to ensure that the costs of involuntary detention and involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric institution be paid from the state budget; Persons deprived of their liberty in police stations: 10. To the Ministry of the Interior, to thoroughly investigate all allegations of inhuman and degrading treatment of persons deprived of their liberty, and also in cases when there is suspicion of unjustified or excessive use of means of coercion; 11. To the Ministry of the Interior, to adapt the accommodation conditions in rooms for persons deprived of their liberty to comply with international and legal standards; Applicants for international protection, irregular migrants and persons who have been granted international protection: 12. To the Ministry of the Interior, to ensure separate accommodation of vulnerable groups of applicants for international protection; 13. To the Ministry of the Interior, to reduce the limiting of the freedom of movement of applicants for international protection by accommodating them at the Foreigners Reception Centre through implementation of measures that are milder than those that usually serve to enable the same purpose. 35

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