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; 68 See for more information pp. 56-57 of this Report 73

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