Thus, the Commissioner proposes the followings on the basis of the
analysis of her activity as an NPM throughout 2015 and for effective
protection of the rights of detainees:
1. strengthen the control over conducting the criminal case
investigations of juveniles by highly qualified prosecutors, senior
prosecutors, in particular;
2. ensure that regional features are considered during the investigations
of the cases dealing with juveniles;
3. ensure that the alternative restraint measures are given priority to
punishments in relation to the accused persons, especially juveniles,
pregnant women and women with minor dependants;
4. adopt the relevant norms regulating the wearing of civil uniforms by
detention facility guards in order to influence on the process of correction of
juveniles kept in correction facilities of the Penitentiary Service and foster
demonstration of good behaviors in the society;
5. ensure that the information or videos of the arrested or detained
persons are not released in mass media without a court verdict which
entered into force;
6. approve the temporary regulations on “Detention places for the
administratively detained persons” certified by the relevant executive power
offices, temporary IDR on “In detention places for the administratively
detained persons”, “IDR of Prisons”, and the draft law on IDR of Centers
for Irregular Migrants by the Cabinet of Ministers;
7. comply the Article 17 and 21 of the Annex No. 4 to the Regulations
of Garrison and Guard Services of the Armed Forces to international
norms.68
Recommendations to the Ministry of Internal Affairs
1. supply the child police inspectors with technical means;
2. strengthen the control over transferring the persons subjected to
restrain measures and detained in TDPs to investigation isolators within 24
hours as specified by the law;
3. improve the process of keeping records in TDPs about release out
and returning to cell the detainees;
4. conduct legal awareness among the police about the Law of the
Republic of Azerbaijan on the rights and freedoms of individuals kept in
detention facilities;
5. improve the provision of the persons detained in TDPs with material
and hygienic tools at public expense as prescribed by the Law;
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See for more information pp. 56-57 of this Report
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